Sapper

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  • noun. A military engineer who specializes in sapping and other field fortification activities.
  • noun. A military engineer who lays, detects, and disarms mines.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who saps; specifically, a soldier employed in the building of fortifications, the execution of field-works, and the performance of similar operations.
  • noun. A chisel used in some sawing-machines to cut away waste or sap-wood and reduce a log to a cylindrical shape.
  • noun. Any insect which sucks the sap of plants, as the rice-sapper.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Often known as a combat engineer or military engineer.
  • noun. an officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
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  • noun. a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines
  • noun. a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
    • Word Usage
    "While with this unit, Source received training in sapper techniques."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    army engineer  military engineer  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    capper  clapper  dapper  flapper  knapper  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Burnside  brown-gray  cotton-spinner  eridanian  fortheir  
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