coast artillery

noun

1. artillery used for defending coastal areas.
2. a military unit manning such artillery.

Example Sentences

Coast artillery affords the most magnificent team-sport in the world.

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Inf., three-year troops, another name for the Coast Artillery.

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H of the 43d had an origin prophetic of the regimental consolidation which was to give us the present Coast Artillery.

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The fort has always been the coast artillery headquarters of the United States.

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Modern coast artillery had not yet arrived; but the regiment was making progress.

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