landing craft


nounNavy.
  1. any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.

Origin of landing craft

1
First recorded in 1935–40

Words Nearby landing craft

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How to use landing craft in a sentence

  • 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 Nourse
  • With that he entered a small landing craft, which left a faintly luminescent trail as it plunged toward Earth.

    Second Landing | Floyd Wallace
  • In 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

landing craft

noun
  1. military any small vessel designed for the landing of troops and equipment on beaches

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