artillerist

plural artillerists

1. governmentA person who operates artillery.

   Near-synonyms: artilleryman, artillerywoman, gunner, bombardier

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   Pelham was, in spite of his youth, an artillerist of the first order of excellence, and his loss was a serious one, in spite of his inferior rank.

   1876, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee

   The experiments were not very satisfactory. Mr. Coffin, perhaps, possibly, because he was not a skilled artillerist, had the mortifying experience of seeing the apparatus in front of his cannon blown into fragments, but he made notes of the other reports.

   1898, William Elliot Griffis, Charles Carleton Coffin

   Synonyms: artilleryman, artillerywoman, gunner, bombardier