bombardiers

Noun

bombardier (plural bombardiers)

1. (Canada, US) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
   • The bombardier then checked the gyroscopic stabilization of the bombsight and clutched in the electrical motor.1990, Charles W McArthur, Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II, American Mathematical Society, →ISBN, page 142
2. (Canada, UK) A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
   • Wikipedia: Bombardier (Bdr) and Lance Bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are British Army ranks used in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery instead of (respectively) Corporal and Lance Corporal. In the Canadian Forces, the Artillery Branch uses the ranks of Master Bombardier and Bombardier...
3. An artilleryman; a gunner.
   • […] the officer to whom the command was deputed, to the amusement of a German bombardier, ordered one of the largest cannons to be placed under the gate of a fortress […]1852, R. H. Major, “Notes Upon Russia”, in Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, translation of original by Sigismund von Herberstein, page 98
4. A bombardier beetle.

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