LANDFALL

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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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