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aimer

American  
[aym-er] / ˈeɪm ər /

noun

  • aimers
    plural
  1. a person who aims a weapon at a target, especially a member of an armed force who aims bombs or heavy guns.

  2. a device or feature, especially in video games, used to aim a weapon.


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Johnson was a 21-year-old bomb aimer on the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, by the Royal Air Force’s famed 617 Squadron.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

Pour comprendre il faut aimer, and it seemed to her that, in some ways, he had penetrated the poet's inner meaning more completely than any other critic.

From The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton

When on this eventful night, I went, as usual, and made him my bow in the presentation, "Vous, monsieur," said he—"vous qui etes si jeune, devez aimer la danse."

From The Fitz-Boodle Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

In the first case the unaccented, in the second the accented form has prevailed—Modern French parle, parler; aime, aimer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

The poet of the passions conjugating the verb aimer in its hideous grammatical reality!

From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill

Back in Britain, he opted to become a gunner until he discovered that bomb aimers got higher wages.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022

I firmly believe that Little League pitchers can be much more effective than the current pasture of Dodger aimers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2021

It was knocked down at the second shot, so it was just as well to put the full price upon them at once, they were such remarkable good aimers at anything.

From Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

It was knocked down at the second shot, so it was just as well to put the full price upon them at once, they were such remarkably good aimers at anything.

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

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