Bombardier : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Bombardier	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Bombardier
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bombardier n a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bombardier \Bom`bardier"\, n. [F. bombardier.] (Mil.) (a) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic] (b) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. {Bombardier* beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a kind of beetle ({Brachinus crepitans}), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the {B. displosor}, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is {B. fumans}.