bushment

== English == === Etymology === Aphetic form of abushment, ambushment. === Noun === bushment (plural bushments) (obsolete) An ambush. (obsolete) The troops concealed in an ambush. (obsolete) A surprise party; a company of soldiers secretly deployed. c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, John Gough Nichols, Camden Society No. 35, London 1846: The first day of August a bushement of Frenchemen came to the cawsey but a myle and halfe out of Caleys, where they brenned howses, toke many men prisonars, droffe away horses […].