sapper

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"Of course, it slows down the movement of troops," said the commander of a nine-man sapper squad with the call sign Dill.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2023

He was a sapper in the Royal Engineers, attached to the Parachute Regiment for a few days, with the specific job of clearing barricades.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2018

A sapper contracted a fever and realized that her wisdom teeth were coming in.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2017

Instead he became an improbable sapper in 560 Field Company, which he later described as "a very working-class unit trying to build some patently inadequate defences against invasion on the coasts of East Anglia".

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2012

He promised that we would soon have a satire acted upon the rebels, writ by the notorious wit Major-General Burgoyne, with curtain-tunes and airs by this same excellent sapper to please the crowd.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson