ambushment
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Constant lightning in a particular place indicated an ambushment of the enemy.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
So from that on we went as men whose lives are held in pawn by a hidden foe, looking at every turn for an ambushment.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
Also Sir Kay came out of an ambushment with five knights with him, and they six smote other six down.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
And Joshua sent them forth: and they went to the ambushment, and took their place between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua camped that night among the people.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in the front, or an ambushment, be contemplated.
From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
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