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单词 cannoneer
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cannoneern.

Brit. /kanəˈnɪə/, U.S. /ˌkænəˈnɪ(ə)r/
Forms: 1500s–1800s canoneer, 1500s– cannonier (now historical), 1600s cannoneere, 1600s canoneere, 1600s–1800s canonier, 1600s– cannoneer; also Scottish pre-1700 cannoneir, pre-1700 canoneir.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French canonnier.
Etymology: < French canonnier (late 14th cent. in Middle French as cannonier , canonnier ) < canon cannon n.1 + -ier -eer suffix1. Compare earlier cannoner n.Compare Italian cannoniere (1598 as cannoniero).
An artilleryman who is responsible for the laying and firing of cannon or heavy artillery; a gunner.
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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
1562 J. Shute tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks i. f. 61 He commaunded his maister Cannoniers to discharge all their artillerie at one Instante vpon them.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H5v To saue our Cannoniers from musket shot.
1642 S. D'Ewes Jrnl. 10 Jan. (1942) 398 Certaine Hamletters..informed us of some of the canoneers in the Tower to be dangerous men.
1674 J. Wallis Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 588 Practical cannoneers..find the random of a bullet very different from the parabola.
1716 J. Perry State of Russia 278 He is..a compleat Soldier; besides his being Engineer, Cannoneer..Gun-founder, Blacksmith, etc.
1795 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. Introd. 77 Ordnance stores for the siege, and cannoniers.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 244 The Irish cannoneers stood gallantly to their pieces.
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 405/1 I could see the figures of the cannoneers working like shadowy demons.
1927 R. J. Casey (title) The cannoneers have hairy ears: a diary of the front lines.
1969 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 15 June 13/5 A cannoneer in Battery B,..Spec. 4 Forbes entered the army in June 1968.
2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 Nov. a1/2 In combat, the No. 4 cannoneer on an artillery crew must heave 100-pound rounds, one after another, into the loading tray of a 155 mm howitzer.

Derivatives

cannoˈneering n. the laying and firing of cannon or heavy artillery.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > discharge of artillery
cannon shot1567
cannonrya1583
cannoning1583
girding?c1600
cannoneering1699
playing1711
ball-firing1783
1699 J. Bouvet Hist. Cang-Hy 80 He caused..many of his Subjects to be instructed in the Management of the Great Artillery, as well for Cannoneering as Bombarding of places.
1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 33 The present Perfection of Gunnery, Cannoneering, Bombarding.., and all these Species of artificial..Cruelty.
1851 J. Edgar Boy-princes 81 The Dauphin, seeing with regret the destruction of so fine a place, ordered the cannoneering to be stopped.
1918 A. G. S. Gorgas Half Three Score Years & Ten 150 There were flashes of lightning, succeeded by supreme darkness, and the thunderbolts were as the echoes of cannoneering.
2002 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 63 380 His ‘new science’ of cannoneering was aimed at aristocratic patrons and drew on textual sources which included Aristotelian physics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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