1) Army engineer 2) Army engineer corpsman 3) Combat engineer 4) Military demolitions expert 5) Military engineer 6) Military trench digger 7) Mine engineer 8) One who lays mines 9) Papers about soldier 10) Royal Engineer 11) Soldier who digs trenches 12) Trench builder 13) Trench digger
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1) Miner
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A sapper, also called pioneer or combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties such as bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences and general construction, as well as road and airfield construction and repair. They are also trained to serve as infantry personnel in...
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• (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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British soldier and novelist who won immediate fame with his thriller Bull-Dog Drummond (1920), subtitled `The Adventures of a Demobilized Officer ...
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military engineer. The name is derived from the French word sappe (`spadework,` or `trench`) and became connected with military engineering during ...
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(1888-1937) English author. He wrote the adventure story Bulldog Drummond 1920, about a demobilized officer, and its sequels; he was a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers until 1919. Born in Bodmin,...
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Originally a soldier who dug narrow siege-trenches (or saps), but later became a generic term for engineers and those trained in siege operations.
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Sap'per noun [ Confer French
sapeur .] One who saps; specifically
(Mil.) , one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
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A sapper is a soldier who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Today sappers are more general civil engineers in the army, as the nature of warfare has evolved.
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n] - a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines 2. [n] - a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
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noun a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines
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