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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

They declared they could get along in France with three verbs, and all, happily, in the first conjugation: manger, aimer, payer,—quite enough!

From One of Ours by Willa Sibert Cather

He would often say that it was quite a different thing to be "amoureux d'une femme," and to "aimer une femme"—to be in love with, or to love a woman.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles

With Adrienne Lecouvreur, Lola Montez must often have asked herself, Que faire au monde sans aimer?

From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham

As he took the steam-gun, so he now takes what might become the stoker of the steam part of that machine and the aimer of its gun part.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various

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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