See also: coureur de bois
- 1908  The next time he came to the ship, he was accompanied by the Captain's son, Ben, the poacher, dressed as a bushranger.
- 1938  Who can this be but young Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville and his party of bush-rangers on his way to attack Rupert's House.
3 n. Obs. a whisky peddler.
See also: bush ((v.)) (def. 3)
- 1860  It is estimated that the number of Indians who have died within the last eighteen months from drinking whisky prepared by the bush-rangers of Victoria, is full four hundred.