targeteer

[ tahr-gi-teer ]

noun

1. a soldier armed with a sword and buckler.

Word History and Origins

Origin of targeteer¹

First recorded in 1580–90; target + -eer

Example Sentences

The incident mirrors one of the central plot devices in "Eye in the Sky" and further questions why a person's nationality increases the value of their life in the eyes of a military targeteer.

From US News

Matthews had been one of the CIA's top experts on al-Qaeda and a veteran targeteer in the agency's air war against terrorist groups.

From Washington Post

And the general Iphicrates well answered Callias, the son of Chabrias, who asked him, "What are you? an archer? a targeteer? cavalry, or infantry?"

From Project Gutenberg

A certain person asked the general Iphicrates in a scolding way who he was, as he seemed neither a heavy-armed soldier, nor a bowman, nor a targeteer, and he replied, "I am the person who rule and make use of all these." § vi.

From Project Gutenberg

The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of Clearidas, and did not finally give way until they were surrounded and routed by the missiles of the Myrcinian and Chalcidian horse and the targeteers.

From Project Gutenberg