1845. R. Howitt, `Australia,' p. 81:
"This country [Van Diemen's Land] is as much infested as New South Wales with robbers, runaway convicts, or, as they are termed, Bush-rangers."
1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 77:
"The whole region was infested by marauding bands of bush-rangers, terrible after nightfall."
1887. J. F. Hogan, `The Irish in Australia, p. 252:
"Whilst he was engaged in this duty in Victoria, a band of outlaws—'bushrangers' as they are colonially termed— who had long defied capture, and had carried on a career of murder and robbery, descended from their haunts in the mountain ranges."
<hw>Bush-ranging</hw>, <i>n</i>. the practice of the Bushranger (q.v.).
1827. `Captain Robinson's Report,' Dec. 23
"It was a subject of complaint among the settlers, that their assigned servants could not be known from soldiers, owing to their dress; which very much assisted the crime of `bush-ranging.'"
<hw>Bush-scrubber</hw>, <i>n</i>. a bushman's word for a boor, bumpkin, or slatternly person. See <i>Scrubber</i>.