sapper
Noun
Meaning
One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
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Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
As a boy, Fleming devoured the Bulldog Drummond tales of Lieutenant Colonel H. C. McNeile (aka "Sapper") and the Richard Hannay stories of John Buchan.
Hekmatullah has spent seven years in jail after murdering Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic, Sapper James Martin and Private Robert Poate in August 2012 while they were playing cards.
For Alessi the '80s are marked with some iconic designs like the Two tone kettle by Sapper, their first cutlery set Dry by Castiglioni.
Private Robert Poate, Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic and Sapper James Martin were murdered by Afghan army sergeant, Hekmatullah, who was later captured and sentenced to death.
From the POW Crawl to the dreaded X-Mile Run, combat engineers pushed it to the limit, says a spectator — and Sapper dad — who tells this story of guts and glory.