Ambuscading

Word AMBUSCADING
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Definitions and meanings of "Ambuscading"

What do we mean by ambuscading?

To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

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The word "ambuscading" in example sentences

A bagful of ropes was produced, and he was carried on a mule, bound hand and foot, in secrecy, to the duke's castle of Chillon, the captain of which was one of the ambuscading party. ❋ Various (N/A)

The thick growth of grass and vines made ambuscading a favorite pastime with the Spaniards. ❋ Edward A. Johnson (N/A)

So, on such occasions, I am compelled to carry an automatic in order to dispute with such men my path in life which they are blocking and ambuscading. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Often it longs imperiously to summon a stalwart ruffian, who will finish off decrepitude and make an end; but hardly has the younger generation itself assumed the office and taken its stand as the Warder of the Tree, when its life and hopes in turn are threatened, and among the ambuscading woods it hears a footstep coming and sees the gleam of a drawn sword. ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)

Meanwhile, we were daily expecting to hear that the troops had been attacked along the line of march, and knowing the nature of the country and the many opportunities it affords for ambuscading and destroying one of our straggling columns encumbered with innumerable waggons, we had the worst fears for the result. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

On June 28, 1814, General Smyth formed a plan for ambuscading the British near Odeltown. ❋ John Hill (1884)

An Indian's methods of ambuscading, if the enemy's superior strength made ❋ Louis J Dupre (1881)

His moderated approach, so little like that of royalty on the stage, to which Americans are used, allowed Mrs. March to make sure of the pale, slight, insignificant, amiable-looking youth in spectacles as the sovereign she was ambuscading. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Americans are used, allowed Mrs. March to make sure of the pale, slight, insignificant, amiable-looking youth in spectacles as the sovereign she was ambuscading. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Streight here tried for the last time his plan of ambuscading his enemy, but the wide-awake Forrest was not to be taken in as before, and by a flank movement compelled the weary Federals to resume their march. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)

Before the assemblage could realize this new invasion, a nearer clatter of hoofs was heard along the high road, and one of the ambuscading party dashed up from the fringe of woods below. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

The heavy army of scheming mothers, and the light cavalry of artful daughters, rose before her cousinly and disinterested eyes, and she asked herself what chance poor little Tadcaster would have of catching a true love, with a hundred female artists manoeuvring, wheeling, ambuscading, and charging upon his wealth and titles. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

An ironic man, with his sly stillness, and ambuscading ways, more especially an ironic young man, from whom it is least expected, may be viewed as a pest to society. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

Page 96 only led them into the very thick of the ambuscading party, still maintaining his original lead upon them, but he scattered them so far asunder, that mutual assistance became impossible. ❋ Unknown (1835)

SILENCE, and a deep anxiety, hung, like a spell, above the ambuscading party. ❋ Unknown (1835)

No one could be more surprised than the French commander himself, when the ambuscading party returned in triumph with a long train of packhorses laden with booty, the savages uncouthly clad in the garments of the slain, grenadier caps, officers 'gold-laced coats, and glittering epaulettes; flourishing swords and sabres, or firing off muskets, and uttering fiendlike yells of victory. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

When the next day arrived and all hands were mustered for inspection prior to the choosing of the ambuscading party, I learned to my disgust that I was to be left behind, with the other invalids, to look after the factory, Hutchinson having reported that I was not yet fit for duty, although, like a full dozen others who had been hurt in one or another of our recent fights, I was able to be up and about, and to attend to matters not requiring the use of both arms. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

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