troop carrier
English
Noun
troop carrier (plural troop carriers)
- A vehicle of any kind for transporting soldiers.
- Hyponym: troopship
- 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune[1] (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 225[2]:
- Another 'thopter glided in over the cliff wall above Hawat. He drew in a sharp breath as he saw it—a big troop-carrier. It flew with the slow, spread-wing heaviness of a full load like a giant bird coming to its nest.