Definition of Sapper

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

Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Generic synonyms: Army Engineer, Military Engineer
Derivative terms: Sap

2. Noun. A military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications).
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Generic synonyms: Army Engineer, Military Engineer
Derivative terms: Sap

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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