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noun

Landfall n.

A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.

(Naut.) Sighting or making land when at sea.

A good landfall (Naut.), the sighting of land in conformity with the navigator's reckoning and expectation.

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Etymology of 'Landfall'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Landfall" Quotes from Famous Books

... straightened and swept the sea with keen, puckered eyes. It was a scrutiny that was rewarded. Ahead, across the horizon sky, floated a dark smudge, like the smoke-trail of a steamer, and beneath it was a black speck. It was no ship, but land, he knew. It was the expected landfall, the volcanic island, there ahead, and he, of all of the ship's company, first perceived ...

— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer

... out, then that his ancestral acres bordered on Long Island Sound, and finally that the Sybarite was loafing its head off. What could be more simple, she suggested, than that monsieur should ballast his private yacht with champagne on the homeward voyage, make his landfall some night in the dark of the moon, and put the stuff ashore on his own property before morning. Did he fall for it? Well, I just guess ...

— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance

Words linked to "Landfall" : sea-coast, seashore