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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They claimed that their coast artillery kept Britain's Channel patrol of destroyers bottled up in Dover.
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
Some Pacific Coast beaches are strung with barbed wire, studded with anti-aircraft batteries, coast artillery, searchlight crews.
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
There was a lot of heavy coast artillery there, also, and there were monster shell holes big enough to hold a good audience.
From The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Hill, Grace Livingston
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