landing craft

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landing craft (plural landing crafts or landing craft)

  1. (nautical, military) A type of flat-bottomed boat used to transport infantry and vehicles onto a shore during an assault from the sea.
    • 1954 March, “The Hayman Island Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:
      Turpentine timber was obtained from the forests outside Maryborough and Townsville, and shipped by rail and landing craft to Hayman Island.

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