coast artillery
Americannoun
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artillery used for defending coastal areas.
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a military unit manning such artillery.
Example Sentences
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Some 9,000 2nd lieutenants from coast artillery outfits were at Fort Benning, being turned into infantry officers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Army, which garrisons Navy bases, will have to put barracks, men, coast artillery and antiaircraft, land-based fighters and bombers on the islands.
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
Last month some Manhattan 1-Bs got a tryout in a coast artillery anti-aircraft unit, began working with the guns without even the usual 13 weeks' basic training.
From Time Magazine Archive
In sending your coast artillery as infantry regiments to Mexico you anticipated us in a rather similar use of our marine divisions on the coast.
From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various
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