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US
/ˈsæpɝ/
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[ UK /sˈæpɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈæpɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
How To Use sapper In A Sentence
- Chris, 21, said he was happy to be back in his home town after a long stint in Iraq as a sapper with his Germany-based Royal Engineers unit.
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- The sappers crept a little closer, past the vacated ambush site.
- The sappers crept a little closer, past the vacated ambush site.
- Common features to both types of regiment would include an organic sapper / pioneer platoon at the battalion/squadron level for mobility, countermobility, and survivability tasks.
- In the British army, a standard cry was ‘follow the sapper’, the term for those who, under engineer officers, dug the saps or shelter trenches used in the attack on fortresses.
- But for those young sappers - as soldiers of the Royal Engineers are known - there was one big difference.
- TOM BOWMAN: Specialist Jenkins was a sapper, a combat engineer. Soldiers From The 101st Remember One Of Their Own
- This is extremely significant when you consider the reduction of the number of sappers in combat engineer companies.
- In September, South African sappers began work demining hundreds of kilometers of piste road from the Kenyan border to the rebel-held town of Rumbek.