Crossword-Solution: BOMBARDIER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bombardier | n. | One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. |
| Bombardier | n. | A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “BOMBARDIER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| B-1 crewman | 1 answer |
| He drops the "eggs." | 1 answer |
| in the British army, a non-commissioned officer in the artillery; a kind of beetle | 1 answer |
| R.A.F. member. | 2 answers |
| A NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER IN THE BRITISH ARTILLERY | 11 answers |
| airman | 21 answers |
| Officer | 50 answers |
| fighter | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BOMBARDIER (5)
Bombardier beetle (Zo”l.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands.
Think of Grig's life in the Bombardier Guards, or the Jack-boot Guards; his marches from Windsor to London, from London to Windsor, from Knightsbridge to Regent's Park; the idiotic services he has to perform, which consist in inspecting the pipeclay of his company, or the horses in the stable, or bellowing out 'Shoulder humps! Carry humps!' all which duties the very smallest intellect that ever belonged to mortal man would suffice to comprehend.
This misadventure, for they had hoped to turn the artillery against the intrenched camp, decided Ali’s men on attacking the second redoubt, commanded by the chief bombardier.
What mattered was the enormous whimsicality of the Bombardier at the piano, and the outrageous comicality of a tousle-haired soldier with a red nose, who described how he had run away from Mons “with the rest of you,” and the light--heartedness of a performance which could have gone straight to a London music-hall and brought down the house with jokes and songs made up in dugouts and front--line trenches.
And the bombardier was always Chester Perkins, son of the most unbending and rigorous of tithing-men, but Chester resembled his father in no particular save that he, too, was a deacon and a pillar of the church.
Quotes with BOMBARDIER (3)
Busty’ Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.
A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, they will explode in my face. Here goes... Well... I'm still here! I poured the hydrogen peroxide into the hydroquinone, and absolutely nothing happened. It didn't event get warm!
Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility of awe, for fear that we could grow stupid through admiration. We may feel at risk of becoming overimpressed by architecture and engineering, of being dumbstruck by the Bombardier trains that progress driverlessly between satellites or by the General Electric GE90 engines that hang lightly off the composite wings of a Boeing 777 bound for Seoul. And yet to refuse to be awed at …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1949–2005).