Sapper Definition

săpər
sappers
noun
A soldier employed in digging saps.
Webster's New World
A military engineer who specializes in sapping and other field fortification activities.
American Heritage
A soldier employed in setting or disarming mines.
Webster's New World
A person or thing that saps (in various senses)
Webster's New World
(UK, colloquial) An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Sapper

Noun

Singular:
sapper
Plural:
sappers

Origin of Sapper

  • sap +"Ž -er

    From Wiktionary

  • From sap

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sapper Sentence Examples

  • The average temperatures for these months at places of different altitudes, as given by Dr Karl Sapper, are shown on the following page.

  • The Indian army consists of 138 battalions of infantry, 10 regiments of cavalry, 16 mountain batteries, i garrison artillery company, 32 sapper and miner companies (2 railways companies included).

  • This was extremely generous, when compared to the infantryman's one shilling and the ordinary sapper 's two shillings and sixpence.

  • This was extremely generous, when compared to the infantryman 's one shilling and the ordinary sapper 's two shillings and sixpence.

  • The delirious sapper officer who was originally in command, disappears overboard during the night.

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Words Starting With

SSASAP

Words Ending With

RERPER

Unscrambles

sapper

Words Starting With S and Ending With R

Starts With S & Ends With RStarts With SA & Ends With RStarts With S & Ends With ER

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With S6 Letter Words Ending With R