Sapper
[sæpә]
Definition
(noun.) a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications).
(noun.) a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines.
Typist: Richard--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
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Definition
n. a soldier employed in the building of fortifications &c.
Typed by Gordon
Examples
- His weight is against his being a sapper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The serpent was on the watch, the train was laid, the mine was preparing, the sapper and miner was at work. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Without doubt these amateur sappers had been working hard, for the trench was dug, the dynamite cartridges placed therein, and the hole filled up. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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