Definitions for sappers

sappers sap·per

Spelling: [sap-er]
IPA: /ˈsæp ər/

Sappers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in sappers (aepprss).

Definitions for sappers

noun

  1. a soldier employed in the construction of fortifications, trenches, or tunnels that approach or undermine enemy positions.

Origin of sappers

First recorded in 1620-30; sap2 + -er1

Examples for sappers

He was called the sapper, because he had served in the Engineers.

"There was a sapper of that name whom we met at Simla once, my dear," replied the Colonel.

Yes, every sin is a miner and sapper for a larger army in the rear.

Nothing was sacred from that mimic any more than from a sapper.

Her heart had entered on a course of heavy thumping, like a sapper in the mine.

The victim I had to attend to was sapper Lohmer, a good Socialist.

You told me, did you not, that you could no longer appear in the character of the sapper?

Nothing is sacred to a sapper,—nor to a milliner, unless it is new.

Then what was her business with those spies, the sapper and Nonet?

But the sapper was free; 'free' was my last conscious thought.

Word Value for sappers
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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