n. — Military
a non-commissioned officer in British and Canadian artillery regiments, having a rank equivalent to a corporal.
Type: 2. Preservation — The use of bombardier to refer to a rank in the army is a preservation of the British term borrowed from French in the 1600s. Bombardier and Master Bombardier are specialist ranks for non-commissioned officers in the artillery, equivalent to the ranks of corporal and master corporal in other units of the Canadian military.
See also COD-2, s.v. "bombardier", which is marked "Cdn", ITP Nelson, s.v. "bombardier", which is marked "Chiefly British", and Gage-5, s.v. "bombardier".