LST

L1S1T1

A form of landing ship — a sea-going military light ferry designed to assault shores that are held against them, and disembark forces directly onto the shore

Less commonScrabble 3

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nounLST (plural LSTs)

plural LSTs

  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of landing ship, tank.

    ‘And the last we heard of my brother Frank, he was wanted by the Florida police, the F.B.I., and the Treasury Department for running stolen cars to Cuba on war-surplus L.S.T.'s.’

    1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Penguin, published 2008, page 13
  2. abbreviationinitialismnavigationastronomyInitialism of Local Sidereal Time.
  3. abbreviationinitialismnavigationastronomyInitialism of Local Standard Time.

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