sapper
pronunciation
How to pronounce sapper in British English:
UK [ˈsæpə(r)]
How to pronounce sapper in American English:
US [ ˈsæpər]
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- Noun:
- a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines
- a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
Word Origin
- sapper (n.)
- 1620s, in a military context, "soldier employed in building fortifications," agent noun from sap (v.1).
Example
- 1. The engineer and sapper company cleared a field of mines during its training .
- 2. A burn victim , a nurse , a thief , and a sapper find themselves in each others company in an old italian villa close to the end of world war ii .
- 3. The sapper teams find a chinese-made anti-tank mine , designed to blow up armored vehicles . The rebels explain that the anti-tank mines require a lot of pressure to detonate .
- 4. It also revealed that army commanders had procured 27 golf carts two years ago by passing them off as mechanised wheelchairs for military hospitals and as track alignment reconnaissance vehicles for sapper units .