Meaning of bushment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ambush.
   obsolete
2. The troops concealed in an ambush.
   obsolete
3. A surprise party; a company of soldiers secretly deployed.
   obsolete

Examples

“And by the way Sir Meliagrance laid in an embushment the best archers that he might get⟳ in his country, to the number⟳ of thirty, to await upon Sir Launcelot, charging them that if they saw⟳ such a manner of knight come⟳ by the way upon a white horse, that in any wise they slay⟳ his horse, but in no manner of wise have⟳ not ado with him bodily, [...]”

“The first day of August a bushement of Frenchemen came to the cawsey but a myle and halfe out of Caleys, where they brenned howses, toke many men prisonars, droffe away horses […].”

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