The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cannoneer \Can`non*eer"\, Cannonier \Can`non*ier"\, n. [F. canonnier.] A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
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n. (alternative form of cannoneer English)
Usage examples of "cannonier".
Then heh for cut and thrust, down with the skulking cannoniers, a carbine fire to cover us, round with the horses, and away go the rebel guns in a cloud of dust!
So the long line rolled in until three squadrons of horse and four small cannon, with the blue-coated Dutch cannoniers as stiff as their own ramrods, brought up the rear.
Wounded, dying, or dead, lie the brave cannoniers at their guns, officers and men alike hors du combat, while wounded horses gallop wildly back, with bounding caissons, down the gentle declivity, carrying disorder, and further danger, in their mad flight.
Bedouins, two companies of sappers, one of cannoniers, one of bombardiers, and a train of field and siege artillery.
As you beheld, my cannonier, XII When with the staff of Benedek, On the plateau of Koniggratz, You saw below that wedgeing speck.