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Meanings of sapper in English

Russian
сапер
Portuguese
sapador
Spanish
zapadores
Catalan
sapador

Soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties.

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        Usage of sapper in English
        1
        Son of WW1 sapper Bertram Martin, one of the New Zealand Tunnellers.
        Radio NZ
        2
        As if such an emotion would ever register with the icy sapper.
        Carte Blanche
        3
        A sapper jogged up to the APC as Dom dismounted for instructions.
        Aspho Fields
        4
        He has a son who is a sapper with the Australian headquarters.
        News.com.au
        5
        The trapper trapped; the bopper bopped; the sapper hoist by his own petard.
        The Fourth "R"
        6
        She leaned closer and lowered her voice, 'A sapper, saboteur, miner-
        Dancer’s Lament
        7
        A sapper and a havildar of the 24th were severely wounded.
        The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
        8
        The foreign sapper and miner does no work on French soil.
        Confiscation; An Outline
        9
        The sapper rushed him round a bend, and then crouched down.
        No Man's Land
        10
        Horse, foot, and sapper were packed deep on the Louvain and Tervervueren roads.
        The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, I...
        11
        The sapper's brown feet were still there, just inside the door.
        Gods go begging
        12
        She is a sapper and a miner, and you must capitulate.
        The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
        13
        The anonymous reviews, planted, like sapper's mines, in the journals of the savants?
        Quicksilver
        14
        He was with the Corps of Royal Engineers -a sapper, like Dunne.
        Carte Blanche
        15
        He stopped after a few turns and motioned to another sapper.
        Book Two: Descent
        16
        They run into the attack protecting their faces with sapper spades.
        A writer at war: vasily grossman with the red army
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        Translations for sapper
        Catalan
        sapador
        Sapper through the time
        Sapper across language varieties
        United Kingdom
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