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Definition of Artilleryman
1. Noun. A serviceman in the artillery.
Generic synonyms: Man, Military Man, Military Personnel, Serviceman
Derivative terms: Cannon, Cannon, Cannon, Cannon, Gun
Definition of Artilleryman
1. n. A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.
Definition of Artilleryman
1. Noun. A soldier enlisted in an artillery unit or who uses artillery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Artilleryman
1. [n ARTILLERYMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Artilleryman
Literary usage of Artilleryman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Communists of Paris, 1871: Types--physiognomies--characters by Bertall (1873)
"The artilleryman before us is a Citizen Hero, whose familiarity with his Gun was
acquired on the Buttes Montmartre and Chaumont. Though of the regular rank ..."
2. Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Hester Lucy Stanhope, Charles Lewis Meryon (1846)
"... expected post of artilleryman. Her ladyship, in several conversations, took
great pains in acquainting me with all the material events that had occurred ..."
3. Life in the mission, the camp and the zenáná; or, Six years in India by Colin Mackenzie (1854)
"... Khan—Stoddart and Conolly—Persian Horse Dealer—Lights—Dust Storm—Nil Gao —Hot
Winds—Unlucky Dream—Wounded artilleryman— ..."
4. Four Years Under Marse Robert by Robert Stiles (1903)
"... WILDERNESS Grant—His Rough Chivalry—His Imperturbable Grit—His Theory of
Attrition—Its Effect Upon the Spirit of Lee's Army—An artilleryman of That Army ..."
5. Journal of a Diplomate's Three Years' Residence in Persia by Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1864)
"Novel Cure for the Bite of a Bug—Alarming State of Meshed— Arrest of an artilleryman,
and gallant Act of Colonel Dolmage —The ..."
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