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Artillery vs Artillerist - What's the difference?

artillery | artillerist |

As nouns the difference between artillery and artillerist

is that artillery is large cannon like weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person while artillerist is a person who operates artillery.

artillery

English

Noun

(artilleries)
  • Large cannon like weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xx. 40
    • And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad.
  • An army unit that uses such weapons.
  • Gunnery.
    • (Campbell)

    artillerist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who operates artillery
  • * {{quote-book, year=1876, author=John Esten Cooke, title=A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Pelham was, in spite of his youth, an artillerist of the first order of excellence, and his loss was a serious one, in spite of his inferior rank. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1898, author=William Elliot Griffis, title=Charles Carleton Coffin, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The experiments were not very satisfactory. Mr. Coffin, perhaps, possibly, because he was not a skilled artillerist , had the mortifying experience of seeing the apparatus in front of his cannon blown into fragments, but he made notes of the other reports. }}

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