Bombardier

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  • noun. A member of a combat aircraft crew who operates the bombsight and drops the bombs.
  • noun. A noncommissioned artillery officer.
  • noun. A soldier in the artillery.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Properly, a soldier in charge of a bombard or cannon; specifically, in the British army, a non-commissioned officer of the Royal Artillery, ranking next below a corporal, whose duty it is to load shells, grenades, etc., and to fix the fuses, and who is particularly appointed to the service of mortars and howitzers.
  • noun. A bombardier-beetle.
  • noun. A name of a European frog, Bombinator igneus.
  • noun. [capitalized] A former name, among the Portuguese, for a Fleming or other foreigner.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
  • noun. A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
  • noun. a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the Brachinus displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is Brachinus fumans.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
  • noun. A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
  • noun. An artilleryman; a gunner.
  • noun. A bombardier beetle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target
  • noun. a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery
    • Word Usage
    "Zwerin: The navigator guides the pilot there, and the bombardier is the one to line up the plane over the target --"
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    aircrewman  enlisted officer  noncom  noncommissioned officer  
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    Chevalier  Clear  Deere  Fear  Greer  
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    aerial photographer  aircrew  aircrewman  artillerist  artilleryman  
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