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artilleryman

NOUN
  1. a serviceman in the artillery

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  • Veterans Affairs that, as a paratrooper and artilleryman, he exchanged fire with enemy combatants and was engaged in an incident of friendly fire. William Devereaux
  • A few steps away, a kneeling artilleryman lifts one cannonball from a pile, presumably to bring it to the cannoneers for loading. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
  • Equivalent ranks in the Royal Artillery are lance-bombardier and bombardier, harking back to the ancient rank of bombardier, a species of trained artilleryman.
  • The gunner had to stop the touchhole so that the rammer could not drive a jet of fresh air down the barrel and so ignite any scraps of remaining powder, and Hickson's old and blackened thumbstall betrayed how long he had been an artilleryman. Sharpe's Tiger
  • Devereaux was never a paratrooper or artilleryman. William Devereaux
  • With the Equus, Hyundai has skipped such deliberations and just stuffed cotton in the car's ears like it was a French artilleryman. Hyundai's Ur-Luxury Horse of a Different Dolor
  • It was even said that she carried hot coffee to all the officers and then carried more hot coffee in pails to the artilleryman serving the guns.
  • Brower, 42, was a Virginia Military Institute graduate, Class of 1931, who trained as an artilleryman at Fort Sill.
  • In the earlier chapters, there's a fixation with circumstantial detail - especially of the geography of Surrey - which gives the whole narrative an immediacy which is curiously intensified as the conflict goes on and fewer and fewer characters get names - "the artilleryman", "the curate", and rather oddly to today's reader, "my wife". March Books 13) Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
  • He claimed he was injured as a paratrooper and artilleryman in William Devereaux
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