Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who tramps through the bush or wilderness; a peddler: as, “a romantic young bushloper” (of the earlier period of the Dutch occupation of New York).
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Examples
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"bushloper," as such a man was called in the still earlier Dutch period, consisted mainly of a sort of cloth suited to Indian wants.
Duffels Edward Eggleston 1869
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Brule figured prominently among a group of Frenchmen called coureur de bois, that is, runner of the woods or bushloper.
1612-15 2001
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The romantic young bushloper, eager to accumulate money enough to marry the maiden he had selected, disappeared long ago from the water courses of northern New
Duffels Edward Eggleston 1869
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