Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The member of a combat aircraft crew who operates the bombsight and drops the bombs.
- n. Chiefly British A noncommissioned artillery officer.
- n. Archaic A soldier in the artillery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Properly, a soldier in charge of a bombard or cannon; specifically, in the British army, a non-commissioned officer of the Royal Artillery, ranking next below a corporal, whose duty it is to load shells, grenades, etc., and to fix the fuses, and who is particularly appointed to the service of mortars and howitzers.
- n. A bombardier-beetle.
- n. A name of a European frog, Bombinator igneus.
- n. [capitalized] A former name, among the Portuguese, for a Fleming or other foreigner.
Wiktionary
- n. North America A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
- n. Canada, Britain A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
- n. An artilleryman; a gunner.
- n. entomology A bombardier beetle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Archaic One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
- n. A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target
- n. a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery
Etymologies
- From Old French bombarder ("a stone throwing engine"). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French bombarde, bombard; see bombard. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Zwerin: The navigator guides the pilot there, and the bombardier is the one to line up the plane over the target --”
“Although every member of a combat crew contributed to the success of the whole, the pilot was the focus of his fellows 'hopes and fears, for, in bombardier Moritz Thomsen's words, he "held our lives in his hands.”
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
“Later that night at the officer's club, a pilot called the bombardier "yellow," saying he ought to be "kicked out" of the squadron; others present agreed and declared they never wanted to fly with him.”
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
“He points to an Earth bug called the bombardier beetle that produces a boiling-hot spray that is 25 percent hydrogen peroxide as a defense weapon.”
“He had known for ever so long why at the head of each battery there rode a stalwart bombardier, and why he was called a bombardier; immediately behind this bombardier could be seen the horsemen of the first and then of the middle units.”
“The great family of ground beetles (Carabidæ) almost all possess a disagreeable and some a very pungent smell, and a few, called bombardier beetles, have the peculiar faculty of emitting a jet of very volatile liquid, which appears like a puff of smoke, and is accompanied by a distinct crepitating explosion.”
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
“In the 1950s, while working as a copywriter on Madison Avenue, he quit writing stories and started strategizing a novel based on his wartime experience as a bombardier in the Army Air Corps.”
“Louie Zamparini, 94, Olympic hero, WWII bombardier, plane crash survivor, tortured POW and survivor of post-war turmoil who "has not been angry a single day in the last 40 years.”
The Huffington Post: Jinny Ditzler: Where There's a Will, There's a Way
“Flying over southeastern Michigan at only a couple thousand feel, I crawled up into the place where the bombardier sat and watched the farmland pass by below.”
The Huffington Post: Steve Lehto: Fame, Fortune and Cool Stuff
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