landing craft
any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
Origin of landing craft
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How to use landing craft in a sentence
German artillery chased the landing craft where they milled off shore.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day | James Jones | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany infantry in the first waves drowned, having disembarked from their landing craft in water over their heads.
D-Day Was The Largest And One Of The Bloodiest Invasions In History | James A. Warren | June 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRemember the Harrier jump jet, the vertical takeoff and landing craft the British designed and Hollywood made famous?
Shaking hands with him as he left the landing craft, Trask wanted to know if he'd been sent out as the new Viceroy.
Space Viking | Henry Beam Piper"He says he didn't know a landing craft was supposed to land on the platform," Simpson reported finally.
The Native Soil | Alan Edward Nourse
Out of the gloom above there was a roar and a streak of murky yellow as the landing craft eased down through the haze.
The Native Soil | Alan Edward NourseWith that he entered a small landing craft, which left a faintly luminescent trail as it plunged toward Earth.
Second Landing | Floyd WallaceIn five days the two small landing craft that had left it arched up from Earth and joined the orbit of the large ship.
Second Landing | Floyd Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for landing craft
military any small vessel designed for the landing of troops and equipment on beaches
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