单词 | airland |
释义 | airlandv. Military. transitive. To transport (troops, equipment, etc.) to the field by aircraft. ΚΠ 1941 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 24 May 8/6 On their side the Nazis had air-landed mortars, machine guns and tommy guns, but no tanks. 1954 Lowell (Mass.) Sunday Sun 7 Feb. v. 12/6 The 37th Infantry division will be airlanded in the same area in a reinforcement role. 1959 Times 7 Oct. 7/5 Two of its battalion groups being parachuted with their equipment and the third air-landed. 2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 11 Oct. 4 With resistance stifled, the first wave of paras would be parachuted or airlanded in. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1941 |
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