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▪ I. landfall|ˈlændfɔːl|
1. a. Naut. An approach to or sighting of land, esp. for the first time on a sea-voyage. to make a good (or bad) landfall: to meet with land in accordance with (or contrary to) one's reckoning.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ix. 43 A good Land fall is when we fall iust with our reckoning, if otherwise a bad Land fall. 1670Narborough in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 79 The best Land-fall in my Opinion, is to make the face of Cape Desseada for to come out of the South Sea to go into the Streight of Magellan. 1706[E. Ward] WoodenWorld (1708) 89 If his Reckoning in a long Voyage, jump with his Land-fall, he's as exalted [etc.]. 1850Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. xviii. (1859) 281 It is not until a captain has made three or four good landfalls..just according to his calculations that the living by faith in..the results upon his slate begin[s] to come easy. 1891Winsor Columbus ix. 214 Las Casas reports the journal of Columbus unabridged for a period after the landfall.
b. concr. The first land ‘made’ on a sea-voyage.
1883T. W. Higginson in Harper's Mag. Jan. 218/2 His ‘Prima Vista’, or point first seen—what sailors call landfall—was..Cape Breton. 1884Sir T. Brassey in 19th Cent. May 833 The Bahamas will be for ever memorable as the landfall of Columbus.
c. Arrival at land after a flight over the sea; also, = landing vbl. n. 1 d.
1908H. G. Wells War in Air vi. 194 New York had risen out of the blue indistinctness of the landfall. 1909― Tono-Bungay iv. i. 449, I remember our prolonged dragging landfall. 1928C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station ix. 121 The airship L.3..made her ‘landfall’ off Ingham. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 31 You get a feeling of warming pride as a good landfall is made. Once round the beacon and down you come. 1954‘J. Christopher’ 22nd Cent. 86 They check you each landfall. Hans got his final warning at Luna City. 1959Listener 22 Jan. 160/1 The average drift-migrants [sc. birds] that make a landfall are not necessarily lost.
d. The place where an undersea pipeline reaches land.
1974People's Jrnl. (Inverness & Northern Counties ed.) 7 Sept. 2/6 Burmah and British Petroleum..have..approached Zetland County Council about the possibility of a pipeline landfall in Shetland. 1975Petroleum Rev. XXIX. 387/2 It took twelve months..to select Flotta..as the landfall for the oil pipeline from the Piper field.
2. ‘A sudden translation of property in land by the death of a rich man’ (J.).
1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘They've got a bonny land-fall’, a large amount of property bequeathed.
3. A landslip. (Ogilvie, 1882.)
▪ II. † landfall, v. Naut. Obs. rare—0.
[f. prec.]
intr. To make a ‘landfall’.
1727Boyer Eng.-Fr. Dict., To land fall (a Sea-term), atterrer. |