artillerist
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artillerist (plural artillerists)
- (military) A person who operates artillery.
- 1876, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee[1]:
- 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.
- 1898, William Elliot Griffis, Charles Carleton Coffin[2]:
- 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.
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artilleryman — see artilleryman
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Possibly borrowed. Equivalent to artillerie + -ist.
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artillerist m (plural artilleristen, diminutive artilleristje n)