landing ship
noun
any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
Origin of landing ship
1First recorded in 1940–45
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How to use landing ship in a sentence
It’ll attempt to land aboard the company’s drone landing ship in the Atlantic Ocean after deploying its second stage and cargo.
Watch SpaceX launch a SiriusXM broadcasting satellite live during its 25th flight of 2020 | Darrell Etherington | December 11, 2020 | TechCrunchOne huge landing ship was nosed right up to the shore, and from it rolled tons of heavy equipment.
The Flaming Mountain | Harold Leland GoodwinHe was lying on something hard—a floor surface of the Cirissin landing ship.
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