Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ambush, in any of its senses; the act or method of forming an ambush.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An ambush.
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- noun obsolete An
ambush
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Examples
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Besides, should we light suddenly on an ambushment, which is
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Ludovic Lesly, “I will embrace him also — though I would have you to know that to understand the service of an ambushment is as necessary to a soldier as it is to a priest to be able to read his breviary.”
Quentin Durward 2008
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And Habundia looked on her, and laughed and said: Now are these white and smooth legs as bad as the gleam-gown for the lying hid; but it may no better be, and thou must draw thy skirts down and stumble, if needs must be, when we come to the ambushment.
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But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
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But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
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Bors, with their fellowship of ten thousand men, were put in a wood here beside, in an ambushment, and keep them privy, and that they be laid or the light of the day come, and that they stir not till ye and your knights have fought with them long.
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Then when Sadok wist how Sir Tristram was missed, and anon espied that he was put in prison by King Mark and the traitors of Magouns, then Sadok and two of his cousins laid them in an ambushment, fast by the Castle of Tintagil, in arms.
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Also Sir Kay came out of an ambushment with five knights with him, and they six smote other six down.
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In the meanwhile brake the ambushment of King Ban and King Bors, and Lionses and Phariance had the vanguard, and they two knights met with King Idres and his fellowship, and there began a great medley of breaking of spears, and smiting of swords, with slaying of men and horses, and King Idres was near at discomforture.
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¶ But Jerobo'am caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
2 Chronicles 13. 1999
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