artillerist
- a variation of artilleryman.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Pleased as anyone at the Air Forces' recognition of P-47's good qualities was the Thunderbolt's father, a quiet, wiry onetime Russian Army artillerist named Alexander Kartveli.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the reply, De Gaulle said approvingly: "You are a great artillerist."
From Time Magazine Archive
Being a man of talent, and a skillful artillerist, he did us a great deal of harm.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner
John Hunter conceived a “materia vitæ diffusa”; and but yesterday Huxley had to say of Owen’s theory of “spermatic force” that an artillerist might as well attribute the propulsion of a bullet to “trigger force.”
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford
Colonel Webster, General Grant’s chief of staff, an engineer and artillerist, with a quick eye, has selected a line of defence.
From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton
