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SAPPER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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)

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