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Land's end
†1. = land-end. Obs.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 437 And at þe londes ende laye a litell crom-bolle. 15..Wife of Auchtermuchty (Bann. MS.) 9 He lowsit the pluche at the landis end, And draif his oxin hame at evin. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 68 Thou gossepst at home, to meete me at landis ende.
2. The extremity or furthest projecting point of a country. Now only as the proper name of the most westerly point of Great Britain.
14..Sailing Directions Circumnavig. Eng. (Hakluyt Soc. 1889) 17 A newe cours and tide betwene Englonde and Irlonde and the Londis end. Ibid. 18 The Londes end of Irlonde. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xi. 156 They passed on no further, neyther could they discover the lands end (which some holde to be there). 1793Phil. Trans. LXXXIII. 190 We..were barely able to lay a course through the passage between those islands and the Land's End. |