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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 bom·bar·dier /ˌbɑmbəˈdɪr, bɚ/
 投彈手,炮兵下士

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bom·bar·dier n.  Mil. (a) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic] (b) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
 Bombardier beetle Zool., a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the Brachinus displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is Brachinus fumans.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 bombardier
      n 1: a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery
      2: the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the
         bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target