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sapper

[ US /ˈsæpɝ/ ]
[ UK /sˈæpɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
  • Here is a link: www. beneathhill60.com .... eature. htm I am getting a bit long in the tooth now, but when I was a young sapper back in the sixties we still had tunnelers, locco drivers Army Rumour Service
  • 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.
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