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Sapper   /sˈæpər/   Listen
Sapper

noun
1.
A military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines.
2.
A military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications).





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"Sapper" Quotes from Famous Books



... emptied the smoking-room at Rumfold by showing—with the aid of small flags—what he would have done had he been in charge of the battle of the Somme in 1916. He was only silenced once, and that was by a pessimistic and saturnine Sapper. ...
— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile


Words linked to "Sapper" :   military engineer, armed services, armed forces, war machine, military machine, army engineer, sap, military


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