[f. ARTILLERY + -IST.]
1. One who studies the principles of gunnery.
1778. Pringle, Gunnery, 17. A treatise was published by one of our own artillerists.
1871. Tyndall, Fragm. Sc., I. x. 308. A widely spread opinion among artillerists.
2. A gunner, an artilleryman.
1781. G. Clinton, in Sparks, Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853), III. 230. The want of some artillerists and field-artillery … was an evident disadvantage.
1870. Daily News, 2 Dec., 3/6. We lost one gun, whose artillerists and horses were all killed.
