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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sapper/ˈsapə(r)/

▶noun

1 a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines.

2 Brit. a soldier in the Corps of Royal Engineers.

– origin C17: from sap2 + -er1.

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