Bushranger
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Noun
bushranger
- (In early Australian history) a roving bandit who lived in the bush
- A person skilled in bush craft.
- 1824: Mr Hovell lacks all the qualities befitting a bushranger — in the Australian (newspaper?). Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter II section 2, page 31.