cannonier

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A form of cannoneer — An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical) a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery.

OriginFrench cannonier →
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Meanings

nouncannonier (plural cannoniers)

plural cannoniers

  1. alternativehistoricalAlternative form of cannoneer.

    Then ſe the bringing of our ordinance / Along the trench into the battery, / VVhere we wil haue gabions of ſix foot broad / To ſaue our Cannoniers from muſket ſhot, […]

    c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The Second Part […], 2nd edition, part 2, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i, signature [G6], recto

Origin

  1. Frenchcannonier
  2. Englishcannonier

Unadapted borrowing from French cannonier: see further at cannoneer.

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APA

cannonier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cannonier

MLA

“cannonier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cannonier. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cannonier,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cannonier.

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