The Collaborative International Dictionary
Targeteer \Tar`get*eer"\, n. One who is armed with a target or shield. [Written also targetier.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 someone who tests the accuracy of weapons, especially by firing them at calibrated targets 2 one armed with a target or shield
Wikipedia
A targeteer is a military or intelligence officer responsible for planning and coordinating bombardment-type attacks. Duties include identifying critical elements or vulnerable points, estimating collateral damage, selecting munitions required, and submitting targets to commanders. After an attack, the targeteer is responsible for battle damage assessment to establish whether the strike had the desired effect.
The Targeteer was the first air pistol created by Daisy Outdoor Products. Making its first appearance in 1937, it was designed by Fred Lefever and based on the design of the Colt Woodsman pistol
The Targeteer was designed as a low power BB gun for indoor target shooting. The weapon originally used a smaller sized (BB). The first models had the box designed to be folded into a backstop with a revolving target in the box.
After World War II Daisy redesignated the weapon the Targette that now was made with a silver chrome finish. It included an attractive red plastic holder of spinning targets that was also designed to hold the pistol on top of it.
The weapon ceased production in 1952 but Daisy manufactured new Targeteer air pistols of a different design from 1957 to 1978 using standard sized BBs.
A targeteer is a military or intelligence officer who is responsible for bomb-attack plans.
Targeteer may also refer to:
- USS Targeteer (YV-3), an LSM(R)-501-class landing ship medium (rocket)
- Targeteer (pistol), an air pistol made by Daisy Outdoor Products
- Target and the Targeteers, a trio of superheroes who first appeared in 1940 in Target Comics
Usage examples of "targeteer".
The Chalcidians had already a few targeteers from Crusis, and presently after the battle were joined by some others from Olynthus.
Brasidas, expecting their arrival, conveyed away to Olynthus in Chalcidice the women and children of the Scionaeans and Mendaeans, and sent over to them five hundred Peloponnesian heavy infantry and three hundred Chalcidian targeteers, all under the command of Polydamidas.
They who had gone out to get forage or corn, were chased by the light troops of the Lusitanians, and the targeteers of Hither Spain, who were well acquainted with the country, and could readily swim across the river, because it is the custom of all those people not to join their armies without bladders.