troop carrier

English

Noun

troop carrier (plural troop carriers)

A vehicle of any kind for transporting soldiers.
Hyponym: troopship
- 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune‎ (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 225‎:
  Another 'thopter glided in over the cliff wall above Hawat. He drew in a sharp breath as he saw it—a big troop-carrier. It flew with the slow, spread-wing heaviness of a full load like a giant bird coming to its nest.

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