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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)play

  Familiarity information: SAPPER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SAPPER (noun)


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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