enambush
English
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editenambush (third-person singular simple present enambushes, present participle enambushing, simple past and past participle enambushed)
- (obsolete) To ambush.
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
- For which they went, within a vale close to a flood, whose stream
Us'd to give all their cattle drink, they there enambush'd them
References
edit- “enambush”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.