Definition of "bushwhacker" [bush•whack•er]

• One who travels through the woods, off the designated path. (noun)
• A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country. (noun)
• A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War. (noun)
• Someone who attacks without warning. (noun)
• A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people). (noun)

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• "When the passports were delivered by the courier, I called the bushwhacker and pedagogue and silently gave him the papers."
• "Now I never resented the epithet of "bushwhacker" - although there was no soldier to whom it applied less - because bushwhacking is a legitimate form of war, and it is just as fair and equally heroic to fire at an enemy from behind a bush as a breastwork or from the casemate of a fort."
• "She could not help wondering what he would think of the difference between her and the girl he had known as a bushwhacker nurse."