embush

English

Etymology

From Middle English embushen, enbusshen, enbuschen, from Old French embuissier, enbuschier. Compare ambush, imbosk.

Verb

embush (third-person singular simple present embushes, present participle embushing, simple past and past participle embushed)

1. (obsolete) To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
   • 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:

     […] embushing himselfe presently among the bushes and brambles

References

“embush”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.