coast artillery

American  

noun

1. artillery used for defending coastal areas.

2. a military unit manning such artillery.

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Example Sentences

At last the Germans were trying out their threat to "command the Channel with coast artillery."

From Time Magazine Archive

Naval personnel, including the naval Air Force and coast artillery, is 15,000 men, with 100,000 in reserve.

From Time Magazine Archive

After routine duty in the coast artillery in the U.S. and the Philippines, he taught philosophy at West Point in 1934, went on to Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, graduating in 1936.

From Time Magazine Archive

They claimed that their coast artillery kept Britain's Channel patrol of destroyers bottled up in Dover.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among his assistants are: a chief of cavalry, a chief of field artillery, a chief of coast artillery, a chief of infantry, and a chief of chaplains.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford