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troopship

/troop-ship/US // ˈtrupˌʃɪp //UK // (ˈtruːpˌʃɪp) //

兵舰,军舰,舰艇,舰船

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a ship for the conveyance of military troops; transport.

Examples

  • I was posted to a battery at Meerut, and warned to be ready to start in an early troopship.

  • Feb. 6—United States troopship Tuscania sunk by submarine, lost.

  • In the troopship and the Bengal barrack even his official authority could hardly win a hearing from officer or soldier.

  • Who of the millions that have undergone the experience will ever forget their first crossing of the Channel in a troopship?

  • A bright sea and sky disfigured by a ring of curling black smoke—a death-screen for the last agonies of a torpedoed troopship.