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Meanings of cannoneer in English
Term for artilleryman and lowest military rank for soldiers of the artillery.
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Examples for "gunner"
Examples for "gunner"
1
All right: that meant another gunner or two down there with him.
2
The gunner relapsed into moody silence at the remembrance of the tragedy.
3
But in his hours of relaxation the gunner is a different being.
4
The regular gunner had no use for Territorial horse and field artillery.
5
The 28-year-old Apache co-pilot gunner left the war-torn country on Monday evening.
1
Wiser now for the artilleryman's teaching, I sought out food and drink.
2
The old artilleryman has seen much, and likes to tell of it.
3
One of the officers, a former artilleryman, explained this precaution to them.
4
The general approached the artilleryman as if to take him by the throat.
5
On the other hand, the artilleryman is favoured in certain directions.
1
The rifle spoke and a German machine gunner collapsed behind his weapon.
2
Below sat a machine gunner in a glass booth, watching the escalator.
3
A banner showing ten conjoined rings fluttered over the machine gunner's head.
4
The machine gunner looked alarmed; he hadn't intended to be overheard.
5
And there was still the APC's machine gunner to reckon with.
Usage of cannoneer in English
1
He went and found the famous cannoneer, Jean le Lorrain, and said:
2
If some rebel cannoneer doesn't shoot it off in the coming battle.
3
Count Rugen signaled the cannoneer, and the Prince's instructions boomed along the Cliffs.
4
The garrison consisted of but one cannoneer, and he had but one arm.
5
The cannoneer then looked at him fixedly: Somewhat, I think.
6
The fatal cannoneer makes a breach in him too.
7
A cannoneer touched off the second charge, the gun bucked in its carriage and recoiled.
8
The baffled cannoneer had fired him a random farewell.
9
The unrelenting gun was the stern cannoneer's lady love.
10
This one burst fairly over Grimes' third piece, killed the cannoneer, and wounded several men.
11
Soon afterwards she expects her confinement, and communicates the cannoneer's doubts about pædobaptism to her husband.
12
The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance.
13
A cannoneer was standing on the platform of the next piece on the left with the lanyard in his hand.
14
The cannoneer fired a shot, but his shell passed some feet above the cetacean, which stayed half a mile off.
15
Napoleon said, The cannoneer who brings his piece into action, performs as valuable a service as the cannoneer who works it.
16
The cannoneer seized one of the children, and, swimming vigorously, bore it to the bank; but the mother and the other child perished.
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Cannoneer through the time