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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Bushman

Bŭsh'el-mān

[Local, U. S.]

Bush'-man, n.

noun

n. [D. bosch-man, boschjes-man. See BUSH.]

  1. A woodsman; a settler in the back woods of Australia.
  2. (Geog.) One of a tribe of savages near the Cape of Good Hope; — so named by the Dutch.