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sapper
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bill Noyes witnessed a sapper at-tack in late February against the perimeter held by his mechanized unit. ▪ Jim Murphy witnessed the disorder: I remember the sapper attack on the base camp quite well. ▪ One of the sappers went ...
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A sapper , also called pioneer or combat engineer , is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties such as bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields , demolitions, field defences and general construction, as well as ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sapper \Sap"per\, n. [Cf. F. sapeur.] One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
Usage examples of sapper.
The general now ordered the battery and sappers to go into the village, but it was so full of burning bhoosa, that this was found to be impossible, and they set to work to entrench themselves outside.
Now, under the midday sun, the Major wandered among the sappers filling the gab ions He tested each one, making certain that the sepoys i, were ramming the earth hard into the wicker baskets, for a loosely filled gabion was no use.
The centre column, under Colonel Goldney, consisting of six companies Buffs, six companies 35th Sikhs, a half-company sappers, four guns of No.
Boers leave their trenches, Captain Boileau, of the Sappers, crawled forward along the bank of the river, and discovered Captain Stairs and ten men of the Canadians, the survivors of the firing line, firmly ensconced in a crevice of the river bank overlooking the laager, quite happy on being reassured as to the proximity of support.
High Fistbut the sappers are rigging buildings along our retreat, dropping tons of brick and stone on the damned lizardsyour pardon, siron the Hunters.
It took Milo over two weeks to sort out the shambles of that last attack, to replace the sappers and cooks, sanitarians and smiths, artificiers and wagoners killed or wounded or missing.
It took Milo over two weeks to sort out the shambles of that last attack, to replace the sappers and cooks, sanitarians and smiths, artificers and wagoners killed or wounded or missing.
Sapper, Creepy, Sleazy, Doper, Droopy, Dumpy, Shirty, Groupie, Greasy, Dreary, Shitful, Crock, and Baksheesh.
Bridgeburner with a nod, watched as Hedge rejoined his fellow sappers and they set off for the next unrecoverable building.
Duiker recalled him wella squat, hairless, immeasurably ugly sapper, his eye thin slashes, his nose a flattened spread of angles and crooks.
Since then the general has served in India, at first with the Sappers and Miners, with whose reorganisation he was closely associated, and latterly in command of the Agra District.
The centre column, under Colonel Goldney, consisting of six companies Buffs, six companies 35th Sikhs, a half-company sappers, four guns of No.
Lieutenants Watson and Colvin, with their sappers and the twelve men of the Buffs, forced their way into the village, and tried to expel the enemy with the bayonet.
Bedouins, two companies of sappers, one of cannoniers, one of bombardiers, and a train of field and siege artillery.
Quick Ben had insisted that the sapper could come through via Deadhouse, though the mage was typically evasive about specifics.