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Bombardier
Definitions
- 1 A surname from French.
- 1 A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs. Canada, US
"The bombardier then checked the gyroscopic stabilization of the bombsight and clutched in the electrical motor."
- 2 An enclosed passenger vehicle, propelled over snow and ice by caterpillar tracks and steered by skis, whose actual original product name was Auto-Neige™/Snowmobile™, made by Bombardier Ltée. Canada
- 3 the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target wordnet
- 4 A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr. British, Canada
"Wikipedia: Bombardier (Bdr) and Lance Bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are British Army ranks used in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery instead of (respectively) Corporal and Lance Corporal. In the Canadian Forces, the Artillery Branch uses the ranks of Master Bombardier and Bombardier instead of Master Corporal and Corporal."
- 5 a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery wordnet
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- 6 An artilleryman; a gunner.
"[…] the officer to whom the command was deputed, to the amusement of a German bombardier, ordered one of the largest cannons to be placed under the gate of a fortress […]"
- 7 A bombardier beetle.
Etymology
Partly borrowed from Italian bombardiere, from bombarda + -iere, and partly from Middle French bombardier, from bombard + -ier. By surface analysis, bombard + -ier.
From French Bombardier.
Company founded in Valcourt, Quebec, in 1941; from family name of founder Joseph-Armand Bombardier.
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