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Cannoneer

noun
1.
A serviceman in the artillery.  Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner.






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"Cannoneer" Quotes from Famous Books



... a magnificent gun a heap of junk with four dead horses and every cannoneer on the ground dead or freezing where they fell. A single shell had done the work. Riderless horses galloped wildly over the field, shying at the grim piles of dark blue bodies, sniffing the blood and ...
— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon

... staves of wood, about two and a half feet long, on which the match was carried] be ready, and furnished with Match [or cotton thread, boiled in ashes-lye and powder, and kept smouldering, with a red end, when in use], and to have alwaies one lighted, and where the Cannoneer makes his Quarter to have two one above another below [this last passage is a little obscure, but we take it to mean that at night, when the gunner slept in his cabin, a lighted match was to be beside him, but that in the gun-decks ...
— On the Spanish Main - Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. • John Masefield



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