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 Pacific Coast beaches are strung with barbed wire, studded with anti-aircraft batteries, coast artillery, searchlight crews.
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
At last the Germans were trying out their threat to "command the Channel with coast artillery."
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
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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