Helen Fenton

Butcher: Definition and part of speech

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Butcher

  1. n. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
  2. n. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bushman: Definition and part of speech

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Bushman

  1. n. One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.
  2. n. A woodsman; a settler in the bush.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bushranger: Definition and part of speech

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Bushranger

  1. n. One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bushwhacker: Definition and part of speech

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Bushwhacker

  1. n. A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers.
  2. n. One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bushwhacking: Definition and part of speech

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Bushwhacking

  1. n. The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers.
  2. n. Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.