with objectTo transport (troops, equipment, etc.) to the field by aircraft.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Maine). From air + land, after air landing, airlanding, airlanded, and German luftlanden.
Definition of airland in US English:
airland
verbˈɛːland
Military
with objectTo transport (troops, equipment, etc.) to the field by aircraft.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Maine). From air + land, after air landing, airlanding, airlanded, and German luftlanden.