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单词 landing craft
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landing craft

Word forms: plural landing craft
countable noun
A landing craft is a small boat designed for the landing of troops and equipment on the shore.
The engine of one landing craft was still running.

landing craft in British English

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

landing craft in American English

any of various naval craft designed to bring troops and equipment close to shore during amphibious operations

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Examples of 'landing craft' in a sentence
landing craft

My first landing craft hit a mine on the way in.
The Sun (2015)
One such device has been spotted on a landing craft beside the river at Westminster.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I suggest that the Russians were using some sort of amphibious vehicle or maybe a landing craft.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
This requires either small landing craft or some other much smaller boats to come alongside, load the men on board and ferry them away.
Admiral Sandy Woodward, With Patrick Robinson ONE HUNDRED DAYS (2003)
As they sailed in, one landing craft was hit by 20 enemy shells.
Alan Whicker Whicker's War
ROYAL Marines were banned from giving people a trip on a landing craft during a military show because of health and safety regulations.
The Sun (2008)
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