bombardier

plural bombardiers

1. CanadaUSA bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.

   The bombardier then checked the gyroscopic stabilization of the bombsight and clutched in the electrical motor.

   1990, Charles W McArthur, Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II, American Mathematical Society, →ISBN, page 142

2. CanadaUKA non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.

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   Wikipedia: Bombardier (Bdr) and Lance Bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are British Army ranks used in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery instead of (respectively) Corporal and Lance Corporal. In the Canadian Forces, the Artillery Branch uses the ranks of Master Bombardier and Bombardier instead of Master Corporal and Corporal.

3. An artilleryman; a gunner.

   He has known for ages why a sturdy bombardier rides alongside the officer at the head of each battery, and why he is given a special name.

   1982, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, translated by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher, Early Stories, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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   […] the officer to whom the command was deputed, to the amusement of a German bombardier, ordered one of the largest cannons to be placed under the gate of a fortress […]

   1852, R. H. Major, “Notes Upon Russia”, in Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, translation of original by Sigismund von Herberstein, page 98

   In 1687, with notorious effects, Morosini attacked Athens: the Turks were using the Parthenon as a powder-store, and the German bombardiers blew it up.

   2001, Martin Garrett, Venice, →ISBN, page 37

4. biologyA bombardier beetle.

plural Bombardiers

1. A surname from French.

plural Bombardiers

1. CanadaAn enclosed passenger vehicle, propelled over snow and ice by caterpillar tracks and steered by skis, whose actual original product name was Auto-Neige™/Snowmobile™, made by Bombardier Ltée.