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noun
Ambuscade  n.  
1.
A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.
2.
A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly. (R.)
3.
(Mil.) The body of troops lying in ambush.


verb
Ambuscade  v. t.  (past & past part. ambuscaded; pres. part. ambuscading)  
1.
To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.
2.
To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.


Ambuscade  v. i.  To lie in ambush.





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"Ambuscade" Quotes from Famous Books



... case learned of Herkimer's advance and sent the savages under his command to intercept and ambuscade him. A terrible hand-to-hand combat ensued in which a hundred and sixty of the colonists were killed and the loss to the Indians was as great. General Herkimer's horse was shot under him and he himself wounded severely in the leg. Notwithstanding ...
— How the Flag Became Old Glory • Emma Look Scott
... his followers, upon landing, sat down upon the beach for breakfast; but their repast was rudely disturbed by a shower of stones from an ambuscade of Typees in the edge of the wood. Stopping but a moment to finish their food, the jackies picked up their cutlasses and muskets, and started for the enemy. They were soon in the shady recesses of the tropical forest, but not a Typee was to be seen. That the enemy was there, however, was amply ...
— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 1 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot
... weeks, and I was so full of it that I often dreamed of it, and, sometimes, that I was just going to let fly at them in my sleep. I went so far with it in my imagination that I employed myself several days to find out proper places to put myself in ambuscade, as I said, to watch for them, and I went frequently to the place itself, which was now grown more familiar to me; but while my mind was thus filled with thoughts of revenge and a bloody putting twenty or thirty of them to ...
— Robinson Crusoe • Daniel Defoe
... his way or coming nearer to him than a hundred yards. All was in vain. The bear vanished in the forest like a flying shadow; and, presuming from his known ferocity and vindictiveness that he had prepared an ambuscade for us in the woods, we deemed it the better part of valour to abandon the pursuit. Upon comparing notes, we found that we had all been similarly impressed with his enormous size, his shagginess, and his generally savage appearance, and had all been inspired at the same moment ...
— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan
... during the night, and Sylla was preparing, at sunrise, to pitch his camp, the Moorish cavalry announced that Jugurtha was encamped about two miles in advance. At this report, great dismay fell upon our men; for they believed themselves betrayed by Volux, and led into an ambuscade. Some exclaimed that they ought to take vengeance on him at once, and not suffer ...
— Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jurgurthine War • Sallust


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