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Webster 1913 Edition


Bombardier

Bomˊbar-dier′

,
Noun.
[F.
bombardier
.]
(Mil.)
(a)
One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
[Archaic]
(b)
A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Bombardier beetle
(Zool.)
,
a kind of beetle (
Brachinus crepitans
), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the
Brachinus displosor
, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is
Brachinus fumans
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bombardier

BOMBARDIE'R

,
Noun.
One whose business is to attend the loading and firing of mortars.
1.
Carabus, a genus of insects of the beetle kind.

Definition 2024


Bombardier

Bombardier

See also: bombardier

English

Noun

Bombardier (plural Bombardiers)

  1. (Canada) An 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.

bombardier

bombardier

See also: Bombardier

English

Noun

bombardier (plural bombardiers)

  1. (Canada, US) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
    • 1990, Charles W McArthur, Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II, American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0821801589, page 142:
      The bombardier then checked the gyroscopic stabilization of the bombsight and clutched in the electrical motor.
  2. (Canada, Britain) A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
    • 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.
    • 1852, R. H. Major, Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, translation of original by Sigismund von Herberstein, page 98:
      [] 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 []
    • 2001, Martin Garrett, Venice, ISBN 1902669290, page 37:
      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.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Early Stories, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192837567:
      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.
  4. (entomology) A bombardier beetle.

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References

  • “bombardier” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

French

Etymology

From bombarder + -ier

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔ̃baʁdje/

Noun

bombardier m (plural bombardiers)

  1. (archaic) artilleryman, bombardier
  2. (aircraft) bomber

German

Verb

bombardier

  1. Imperative singular of bombardieren.