sapper

1. A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.

   Sappeur

   сапёрsapjór

   сапе́рsapér

   a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)

2. (UK, colloquial)An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.

3. A person generally engaged in digging requiring a level of professionalism

1. A sapper makes only one mistake.

   ruСапёр ошибается только один раз. — sharptoothed

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2. A sapper can only be wrong once.

   ruСапёр ошибается только один раз. — sharptoothed

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3. The fewer sappers die, the fewer we'll have to train.

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