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Definition of Sapper

1. Noun. A military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines.

2. Noun. A military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications).

Definition of Sapper

1. n. One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

Definition of Sapper

1. 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''. ¹

2. Noun. (British colloquial) an officer or private of the Royal Engineers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sapper

1. a military engineer [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapper

saporosity saporous sapors sapota sapotaceous sapotas sapote sapotes sapour sapours

sappan sappans sappare sapped sapper (current term) sappers sapphically sapphics sapphire sapphire berry

sapphirelike sapphires sapphirine sapphirines sapphisms sapphists

Literary usage of Sapper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. by Whitworth Porter (1889)
"... Albany—Serjeant-Major Wilson placed over the Royal Laundry at Richmond—sapper Livingston made Inventory Clerk—sapper Faulkner Engine-Driver at Frogmore. ..."

2. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1906)
"Dr. Karl sapper, Tübingen. Vorbemerkung. Gelegentlich der 1897 in Guatemala abgehaltenen internationalen Ausstellung trafen von unerwarteter Seite manche ..."

3. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1851)
"sapper offered it for L.1000, and at length obtained a bidding of L.700, which, as he observed, would have left nothing for himself. ..."

4. History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. by Whitworth Porter (1889)
"... Albany—Serjeant-Major Wilson placed over the Royal Laundry at Richmond—sapper Livingston made Inventory Clerk—sapper Faulkner Engine-Driver at Frogmore. ..."

5. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1906)
"Dr. Karl sapper, Tübingen. Vorbemerkung. Gelegentlich der 1897 in Guatemala abgehaltenen internationalen Ausstellung trafen von unerwarteter Seite manche ..."

6. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1851)
"sapper offered it for L.1000, and at length obtained a bidding of L.700, which, as he observed, would have left nothing for himself. ..."

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