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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.
1.
Carabus, a genus of insects of the beetle kind.Definition 2024
Bombardier
Bombardier
See also: bombardier
English
Noun
Bombardier (plural Bombardiers)
- (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)
- (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.
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- (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.
- An artilleryman; a gunner.
- 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.
- (entomology) A bombardier beetle.
Derived terms
- lance bombardier
- master bombardier
- bombardier beetle
Related terms
Translations
bomber crew member
officer rank in artillery
artilleryman
References
- “bombardier” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔ̃baʁdje/
Noun
bombardier m (plural bombardiers)
- (archaic) artilleryman, bombardier
- (aircraft) bomber