Noun:

துப்பாக்கி சுடுபவர்,

gunners's Usage Examples:

In the sky around the aircraft appeared little puffballs of smoke as the antiaircraft gunners on the warships brought their sights to bear.

Six hundred Bohemian handgunners defended the tabor laager at the battle of Varna in 1444 AD.

One of the local names by which the bar-tailed godwit is known to the Norfolk gunners is scamell, a word which, in the mouth of Caliban (Tempest, 11.

Such a charge as prelude to the advance of a great infantry bayonet attack must have swept the exhausted Prussians down the hill like sheep, but the opportunity passed, and the gunners finding their position untenable, limbered up, not without severe losses, and retired to a second position in rear.

Fortunately a dense fog hid the helpless masses on the Landgrafenberg from sight of the Prussian gunners.

In the course of the summer he took the fortresses of Arad, Lippa and Vilagos; provided himself with guns and trained gunners; and one of his bands advanced to within five leagues of the capital.

But the Austrian gunners were intent on the Prussian batteries farther back, which as the light improved had come into action.

The Battalion had parties of specialist machine-gunners and grenade throwers on stand-by, as well as those ready to repair barbed wire.

Iraqi gunners have shot down unmanned Predator spy drones.

It is customary to ascribe their successes to the power of the breech-loader, but there were actions in which it played no part, cavalry versus cavalry encounters, and isolated duels between batteries which gave the Prussian gunners a confidence they had not felt when first crossing the frontier.

In a few minutes the batteries on the extreme Prussian left were completely overwhelmed, and suddenly dense lines of French skirmishers emerged from a fold in the ground upon their flank and front, and the gunners were compelled to resort to case-shot, so imminent was their danger.

The British gunners had little time to prepare their positions.

Synonyms:

military personnel, artilleryman, machine gunner, serviceman, man, military man, cannoneer,

Antonyms:

juvenile, woman, draftee, volunteer, civilian,