bombardiern.

/bɒmbəˈdɪə/

/bʌmbəˈdɪə/

Etymology: < French bombardier, < bombard : see bombard n. and -ier suffix.

†1. A soldier in charge of a bombard, an artilleryman. Obsolete or archaic.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > artilleryman

gunner1344

bombardier1562

cannoneer1562

artilleryman?1566

engineer1569

artillerist1579

bombarder1583

topchee1623

fireman1625

zumboorukchee1840

culverineer1881

red-leg1890

gun1896

horse gunner1896

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > artilleryman

gunner1344

cannoner1517

bombardier1562

cannoneer1562

artilleryman?1566

engineer1569

artillerist1579

bombarder1583

topchee1623

fireman1625

pyrobolist1696

zumboorukchee1840

culverineer1881

red-leg1890

gun1896

mud hog1918

1562 P. Whitehorne tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre vi. f. lxxxii Smithes, Masons, Ingeners, Bombardiers.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bombardier, a bombardier or gunner that vseth to discharge murthering peeces; and, more generally, any gunner.

1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 292 Our bombardeers are to practice the throwing bombs on ship board.

1709 Tatler No. 88. ⁋3 The bombardier tosses his balls into the midst of a city.

1779 G. Smith Universal Mil. Dict.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xiii. 251 Her two brothers are lieutenants in the bombardiers.

2. spec.

†a. in 17th and 18th centuries: One of the master-gunner's men, employed more especially about the mortars and howitzers. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > artilleryman > assistants

match-man1612

fireworker1617

matross1639

bombardier1688

gun-lascar1798

sponger1828

horse-holder1837

cartridge-filler1871

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > artilleryman > assistants

match-man1612

fireworker1617

matross1639

bombardier1688

gun-lascar1798

horse-holder1837

cartridge-filler1871

1688 List of Jas. II's Artillery Train Firemaster to Trayne, Chief Bombardier, 12 Bombardiers, Chief Petardier, 4 Petardiers.

1746 Rep. Cond. Sir J. Cope 55 He gave the Witness a Bombardeer and four Gunners.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Commissaire de l'artillerie He has also the command of the gunners, matrosses, and bombardiers.

1855 W. Sargent Braddock's Exped. 136 A matross is an artillery soldier of a rank inferior to the bombardier or gunner.]

b. In the British army: A non-commissioned officer in the artillery. Several are attached to each battery of artillery.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > specific rank of artillery officer

Master (General) of the Ordnance1458

master gunner?c1475

Master of the Armoury1485

rotmaster1523

Mr1669

artillery officer1707

bombardier1844

lance-bombardier1935

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 4 Bombardiers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery rank as Corporals.

c. A bomb-aimer in an aircraft. U.S.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > aircrew with specific duties

observer1870

strafer1915

air gunner1916

air bomber1918

gunner1918

rear gunner1918

bombardier1932

bomb-aimer1935

tail gunner1939

tail-end Charlie1941

arse-end Charlie1942

waist-gunner1942

spotter pilot1944

1932 in H. I. T. Creswell et al. Dict. Mil. Terms 55.

1942 Time 2 Feb. 35/2 At 30,000 feet, flying 200 m.p.h., a bombardier at best has only about 60 seconds in which to locate his target.

†3. A bomb-ship. Obsolete.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > bomb-vessel

bombardier1686

bomb-ketch1693

bomb-vessel1693

palander1693

bomb-ship1695

bomb1704

bomb-galliot1715

bombard1799

bombardier-galliot1807

bombarder1866

galliot1867

1686 London Gaz. No. 2142/2 20 Men of War, 2 Fire-Ships and 3 Bombardiers.

Compounds

bombardier beetle n. a genus of beetles (especially Brachinus crepitans) which, when irritated, eject fluid with a sharp report and blue vapour.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Adephaga (carnivorous beetles) > Geadephaga (terrestrial) > family Carabidae > member of subfamily Carabinae

bombardier beetle1803

sunshiner1828

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 234 (heading) The Bombardier... When it is touched we are surprised with a noise resembling the discharge of a musket in miniature, during which a blue smoke may be perceived to proceed from its extremity.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iv. i. 214 The..Bombardier Beetles discharge a still more offensive fluid.

† bombardier-galliot n. Obsolete a kind of bomb-vessel.

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