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ˈlanding-place
1. a. A place where passengers and goods are or can be landed or disembarked.
1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 1 §1 The Frenchemen..knowe aswell every haven and creke within the sayde Countie as every landyng place. 1620–55I. Jones Stone-Heng (1725) 13 They were imbarked, dis-imbarked, and brought from their Landing Place to Salisbury Plain. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2221/8 Lost.., between Richmond and Putney Landing⁓place, a Point Crevat and Cuffs. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. vi. 191 Pilots were ordered to..conduct him to the most convenient landing-place. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast vii. 15 Waiting at the landing place for our boat to come ashore.
b. A platform at a railway station.
1882in Ogilvie.
c. A place where a bird, insect, aircraft, etc., can or does land.
1776T. Pennant Tour in Scotl. & Voy. Hebrides 1772 II. 24 Woodcocks... Their first landing-places are in the eastern counties. 1889Leisure Hour 642/2 Insect ‘landing-places’ would thus, according to the theory, acquire considerable importance in affecting the structure of the flower. 1899Strand Mag. Aug. 183/1 Captain Spelterini's sharp eye had quickly chosen an advantageous landing-place, and the anchor was thrown [from the balloon]. 1909Flying: the Why & Wherefore v. 33 Another advantage of flying high is that in case of an engine stoppage the aeronaut will have time to look round and choose a landing place. 1935C. Day Lewis Time to Dance 35 The oil ran out and cursing they turned about Losing a hundred miles to find a landing-place. 1962K. W. Gatland Astronautics in Sixties xi. 338 After reconnaissance spacecraft and soft-landing probes had given information concerning a suitable landing place, a Surveyor-type probe would be put down close to the desired landing point.
2. = landing vbl. n. 6 (now the usual word).
1611Cotgr., Aire,..the halfe-pace, or landing place of a half-pace staire. 1625Bacon Ess., Building (Arb.) 550 The Staires likewise.. let them bee vpon a Faire open Newell, and finely raild in..And a very Faire Landing Place at the Top. 1765Foote Commissary i. Wks. 1799 II. 7 Simon..flew up stairs, fell over the landing-place, and quite barr'd up the way. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge ix, His stealthy footsteps on the landing-place outside. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 352 The staircases and landing places are not wanting in grandeur.
attrib.1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xxxiv. (1893) 193 The dinner and ball invitations gradually dwindled away, till he became a mere stop-gap at the one, and a landing-place appendage at the other.
3. transf. and fig. (in prec. senses). A place at which one arrives; a stopping- or resting-place.
1727Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins, etc. vii. 151 What the Romans called Vestibulum was no part of the House, but the Court or Landing-place between it and the Street. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xlvii, He seeks at least Upon the last and sharpest height..Some landing-place, to clasp and say, ‘Farewell! We lose ourselves in light’. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. Introd. 2 Tom was..beginning to feel that it was high time for him to be getting to regular work again.. A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all. 1884J. Tait Mind in Matter (1892) 245 When the conscience-troubles..lead to scepticism, the ultimate landing-place..is superstition. |