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SAPPER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sapper mean?
• SAPPER (noun)
The noun SAPPER has 1 sense:
1. a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
Familiarity information: SAPPER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sapper" is a kind of...):
army engineer; military engineer (a member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Derivation:
sap (excavate the earth beneath)
sap (deplete)
Context examples
His weight is against his being a sapper.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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