Bushwhacker

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes.

II. Bushwhacker ·noun A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers.

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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.