landing craft

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   naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment

   Broadercraft

Questions about landing craft

What does landing craft mean?

landing craft means "naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment".

Is landing craft a common word?

landing craft is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.