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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From Brooklyn an Army transport laden with infantry and coast artillery sailed for the same destination.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some Pacific Coast beaches are strung with barbed wire, studded with anti-aircraft batteries, coast artillery, searchlight crews.
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
Some 9,000 2nd lieutenants from coast artillery outfits were at Fort Benning, being turned into infantry officers.
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
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