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brushman
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a legendary Indian living in solitude in the woods.
Quotations
1949
Some brushmen were the survivors of bands of Indians which had been nearly exterminated by starvation, living on alone after all the others had succumbed. . . . Ibid. 112: She had been afraid it was a "brushman" trapping ground squirrels.