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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A soldier in the artillery; a gunner.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who takes part in the loading and discharging of cannon; an artilleryman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man who manages, or fires, cannon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun military A person who tends and operates a piece of artillery, especially a cannon.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a serviceman in the artillery

Etymologies

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From cannon +‎ -eer

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