engineer

1. engineer (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.

Example: For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]

2. engineer (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.

Example: This is hard welcome, but it was not you, / At whom the fatal enginer did ayme, / My breaſt the levell was, though you the marke, / In which conſpiracie anſwere me Duke, / Is not thy ſoule as guiltie as the Earles?

3. engineer (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.

Example: [T]o an Enginer alſo, vvho promiſed to bring into the Capitoll huge Columnes vvith ſmall charges, hee gave for his deviſe no meane revvard; and releaſed him his labour in performing that vvorke, ſaying vvithall by vvay of preface, That he ſhould ſuffer him to feed the poore commons.

4. engineer (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.

5. engineer (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).

Example: In an interesting animal study, scientists engineered mice with a specific gene defect that caused memory and learning problems.

6. engineer (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.