bushment

Etymology
Aphetic form of,.

Noun

 * 1)  An ambush.
 * 2)  The troops concealed in an ambush.
 * 3)  A surprise party; a company of soldiers secretly deployed.
 * 4) * c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais,, 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.
 * 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.