landing craft
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈlændɪŋ kræft/
- Specialized
:
embarcación de desembarco
- The troops waited anxiously as their landing craft approached the shore.
Examples
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The landing craft made its way tediously toward the beach.
Fiction book (2002) -
We could see the landing craft running up on the beaches.
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I was inside the landing craft.
Fiction book (1999) -
What about those landing craft?
Fiction book (1993) -
I was the first one into the landing craft, so I sat by the pilot.
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The great question now was, would the landing craft make the rendezvous?
Fiction book (1993) -
Salinger was in a landing craft coming in towards Utah Beach.
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The older of my veteran brothers operated a landing craft on many of the invasions in the Pacific.
Blog text (11) -
My father piloted a Higgins landing craft and took troops into Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Blog text (11) -
Several landing craft were deployed to transport soldiers from the ships to the beach.
Synonyms
3
4.4
A vehicle like a truck or plane that carries soldiers
2
4.9
A vehicle like a truck, ship, or helicopter that carries soldiers
1
7.4
A ship that carries soldiers, often during war
A small military boat that carries soldiers to a beach
A large ship that carries tanks and other vehicles onto a beach
A small boat that a ship carries to move people between ship and shore
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Morphology
The meaning 'a small naval vessel used to transport troops and equipment to shore' is directly derivable from combining 'landing' (coming ashore / place for disembarkation) with 'craft' (a vessel). The noun–noun compounding pattern (first noun specifying the function/type of the second) is common in English and cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name landing craft comes from small flat boats used in war that did the landing: they carried soldiers and vehicles from a ship onto the beach. Because these craft moved people and equipment from ship to shore, the name now means 'a small boat used to carry troops and equipment from ship to land'.