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Cannoneer. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cannoneer Also 6– cannonier. [a. F. canonnier = It. cannoniere, Sp. cañonero, Pg. canhoneiro: see CANNON and -EER.]

1   An artilleryman who manages the laying and firing of a cannon; a gunner.

2 1562.  Act 5 Eliz., v. § 12. Gunners, commonly called Canoneers

3 1590.  Marlowe, 2nd Pt. Tamburl., III. iii. ad fin. To saue our Cannoniers from musket shot.

4 1591.  Garrard, Art Warre, 303. The Cannoniers ought to be readie.

5 1674.  Wallis, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 588. Practical cannoneers … find the random of a bullet very different from the parabola.

6 1795.  in Nicolas, Disp. Nelson (1846), VII. Introd. 77. Ordnance stores for the siege, and cannoniers.

7 1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 244. The Irish cannoneers stood gallantly to their pieces till they were cut down to a man.

8   Hence Cannoneering vbl. sb., management of cannon; cannonading.

9 1756.  Burke, Vind. Nat. Soc., Wks. I. 31. The present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all these species of artificial … cruelty.

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