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▪ I. lander|ˈlændə(r)|
[f. land v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who lands or goes ashore.
1859Tennyson Enid 330 The sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle. 1890C. Martyn W. Phillips 16 The famous landers on Plymouth Rock.
b. A spacecraft, or a part of one, which is designed to land on the surface of a planet or of the moon.
1961Astronautica Acta VII. 130 The rotary drill..is designed to penetrate 1·5 ft or more into the lunar surface and bring samples into the lander for chemical analysis. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics v. 176 Hard landers contain retrorockets to reduce the terminal velocity to between 100 and 300 m.p.h... Soft landers..are built to descend gently onto the surface. 1967Technology Week 23 Jan. 61/1 (Advt.), This calls for a varied series of probes, orbiters and hard and soft landers. 1971Listener 7 Oct. 476/3 Each vehicle consists of two main parts: an orbiter and a lander.
2. Mining. The man who ‘lands’ the kibble at the mouth of the shaft.
1847in Halliwell. 1865J. T. F. Turner Slate Quarries 8 Wagons..are filled by a party of men..called ‘fillers’, while a similar number of ‘landers’ and ‘emptiers’, at the surface, receive and dispose of their freight.
▪ II. lander, -erer
variants of launder, -erer. |