单词 | artillerist |
释义 | artilleristn. 1. A member of the artillery; a gunner. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > artilleryman gunner1344 bombardier1562 cannoneer1562 artilleryman?1566 engineer1569 artillerist1579 bombarder1583 topchee1623 fireman1625 zumboorukchee1840 culverineer1881 red-leg1890 gun1896 horse gunner1896 society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > artilleryman gunner1344 cannoner1517 bombardier1562 cannoneer1562 artilleryman?1566 engineer1569 artillerist1579 bombarder1583 topchee1623 fireman1625 pyrobolist1696 zumboorukchee1840 culverineer1881 red-leg1890 gun1896 mud hog1918 1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune i. cix. f. 126 A valyant warryour chooseth rather to encounter his enimie at hande, which the artylleryst [L. sagittarius] escheweth. 1775 in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1896) App. X. 366 There are at least 200 french among the Troops of the Rebels, who acted as Artillerists and Engineers. 1781 G. Clinton in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) III. 230 The want of some artillerists and field-artillery..was an evident disadvantage. 1814 Times 4 Nov. 3/3 Among the Belgians who return from France are observed..artillerists of the old guard, who will be for the most placed in our national army. 1870 Daily News 2 Dec. We lost one gun, whose artillerists and horses were all killed. 1916 Sci. Monthly Jan. 42 Our seacoast forts [should] be manned and officered by a largely increased number of technically trained artillerists. 1958 F. Downey Guns at Gettysburg iv. 56 He..had displayed his genius as an artillerist in the massing of guns that conquered at Malvern Hill. 2006 Post-Bulletin (Rochester, Minnesota) (Nexis) 7 Sept. Walz's deafness, a condition resulting from his years of serving as an artillerist in the Army National Guard. 2. A student of, or expert in, the use of artillery. Also: an advocate of the use of artillery in battle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > one who studies or experiments with weapons > [noun] artillerista1751 projectilist1852 ballistician1907 missile man1951 missileer1960 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > study of > person artillerista1751 a1751 B. Robins Math. Tracts (1761) I. 270 It was always in the power of a prejudiced artillerist to urge experiments in defence of his favourite hypothesis. 1778 J. Pringle Disc. Gunnery 17 A treatise was published by one of our own artillerists. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. I. x. 308 It had been a widely spread opinion among artillerists, that a bronze gun emits a specially loud report. 1905 Philos. Rev. 14 542 To the artillerist..the flight of a projectile appears necessarily dependent on its initial velocity and direction. 1963 E. J. Knapton Empress Josephine ix. 107 He was an aspiring professional soldier, an artillerist, a student of mathematics and topography. 1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 13/3 Montgomery was intensely professional and a convinced artillerist. 2000 S. H. Mauskopf in F. L. Holmes & T. H. Levere Instruments & Exper. Hist. Chem. xiii. 342 A Russian artillerist with an interest in the chemistry of munitions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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