bushranger
(Australia, obsolete) A person skilled in bushcraft.
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(Australia, obsolete) A person skilled in bushcraft.
The retribution for those who failed to help bushrangers could be severe. Thomas Kenton was imprisoned in 1825, accused of having allowed Matthew Brady to escape, but was later murdered by the bushranger as an informer.28
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(Australia, historical) A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.
We each discharged a shot in the direction of the explosion by the bushrangers, for we had no other guide in aiming, owing to the night being so very dark, which was rendered denser by the mizzling rain which had been falling all day.
“The story doesn't stop with Sydney's Convicts, it continues with the coming sequel called A Bushranger's Glory.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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