What does sapper mean?

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ˈsæp ərsap·per

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sappernoun

    a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines

  2. sappernoun

    a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)

Wiktionary

  1. sappernoun

    One who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Often known as a combat engineer or military engineer.

  2. sappernoun

    an officer or private of the Royal Engineers.

Wikipedia

  1. Sapper

    A sapper, also called a combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties, such as breaching fortifications, demolitions, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, preparing field defenses, and road and airfield construction and repair. They are also trained and equipped to serve as provisional infantry, fighting as such as a secondary mission. A sapper's duties facilitate and support movement, defense, and survival of allied forces and impede those of enemies. The term "sapper" is used in the British Army and Commonwealth nations and the U.S. military. The word "sapper" comes from the French word sapeur, itself being derived from the verb saper (to undermine, to dig under a wall or building to cause its collapse).

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  1. sapper

    A sapper, also known as a combat engineer, is a soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties such as bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences construction, and road and airfield construction and repair. They are also trained to serve as infantry personnel in defensive and offensive operations. Historically, the name derives from the French word 'sappe', referring to digging trenches.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sappernoun

    one who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like

  2. Etymology: [Cf. F. sapeur.]

Wikidata

  1. Sapper

    A sapper, also called pioneer or combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties such as bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defenses and general construction, as well as road and airfield construction and repair. They are also trained to serve as infantry personnel in defensive and offensive operations. A sapper's duties are devoted to tasks involving facilitating movement of allied forces and impeding those of enemies. The term "sapper" is used in the British Army, Polish Army, Commonwealth nations and U.S. military.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sapper

    sap′ėr, n. a soldier employed in the building of fortifications, &c.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SAPPER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sapper is ranked #60636 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sapper surname appeared 332 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sapper.

    96.3% or 320 total occurrences were White.
    2.1% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sapper in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sapper in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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