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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Landfall \Land"fall\, n.
A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
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(Naut.) Sighting or making land when at sea.
A good landfall (Naut.), the sighting of land in conformity with the navigator's reckoning and expectation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sighting of land," 1620s, also "the first land 'made' on a sea voyage;" from land (v.1) + fall (v.) in the sense of "happen." From the days of imprecise nautical navigation.\n\nLand-fall. The first land discovered after a sea voyage. Thus a good land fall implies the land expected or desired; a bad landfall the reverse.
[John Hamilton Moore, "The New Practical Navigator," London, 1814]
\nOf hurricanes, by 1932.Wiktionary
n. 1 Arrival at the shore by ship. 2 The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.
WordNet
n. the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)
the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 300
Land area (2000): 0.077806 sq. miles (0.201516 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.024254 sq. miles (0.062817 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.102060 sq. miles (0.264333 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35414
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.951063 N, 92.977038 W
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Wikipedia
Landfall is the time at which a storm passes over shore.
Landfall may also refer to:
Places- Landfall, Minnesota, United States
- Landfall, also known as Kent Cottage, Brigus, Newfoundland
- Landfall Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
- Landfall Peak, Thurston Island, Antarctica
- Landfall (journal), a New Zealand literary journal
- Landfall (film), a 1949 British film
- Landfall (album), an album by Martin Carthy
- Landfall: A Channel Story, a novel by Nevil Shute
- Landfall, the name given to LCT 7074 by the Master Mariners' Club of Liverpool
Landfall is the event of a storm moving over land after being over water. When a waterspout makes landfall it becomes a regular tornado, which can then cause damage inland. When a fair weather waterspout makes landfall it usually dissipates quickly as it loses the inflow of warm air into the vortex.
Landfall is New Zealand's oldest extant literary journal. One predecessor was another Caxton Press journal, the irregularly published Book, edited by Anton Vogt. Denis Glover, of Caxton Press, visited Charles Brasch in London while on leaving during World War 2, and it was then the two "discussed the idea for a new, professionally produced literary journal in New Zealand".
First published in 1947 by Caxton Press, under the editorship of Brasch, the magazine features new fiction and poetry, biographical and critical essays, cultural commentary, and reviews of books, art, film, drama and dance.
Additionally, the journal showcases original works of art in full colour.
Landfall is published twice annually, in May and November by the Otago University Press. As of 2006, it consists of a paperback publication of about 200 pages, selling for about NZ$29.95. A website version of the journal publishes new literary reviews monthly.
Brasch edited Landfall until 1966 when it was edited by Robin Dudding. Since 2010 and it is edited by David Eggleton.
Landfall is a 1949 British war film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett and Kathleen Harrison. It is based on the 1940 novel, Landfall: A Channel Story, written by author Nevil Shute.
Landfall is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1971.
Carthy made this album in the year he left Steeleye Span. The song "Cold Haily Windy Night" is a re-recording of the same song on Steeleye's album Please to See the King. In contrast to the richly resonating sound on that album, here everything is stripped down without any reverb. Later he would record it again with The Imagined Village, returning to a complex rhythm once more. Steeleye Span made some attempt to convey regional accent. Here every song is sung with the southern English accent that is natural to him. "The Cruel Mother" is sung without accompaniment. This is Carthy at his simplest — no overdubs, no vocal gymnastics and no syncopation.
The Polygram Records subsidiary Gama Records Ltd licensed the album to Topic Records who issued it in 1977.
The original issue on Philips had "Landfall" as one word. The cover of the reissue on Topic Records had "Land" followed by "Martin Carthy" on the next line, followed by "Fall" on the next line, almost implying that "Land Fall" is two words. The spine had the title as a single word and all discographies treat it as one word. Dave Goulder's song "January Man" is his best known song. Martin Carthy played on Goulder's album Requiem For Steam in 1971.
Landfall was re-issued by Topic on CD in 1996.
Usage examples of "landfall".
Reuben Hawkshaw knew of no other plan, but as far as these went he was an excellent navigator, and was seldom many miles out in making a landfall.
Although the dragon-ships could not be seen from the beach, their crews must kave been able to see the snow-capped peaks that were their landfall.
He was the member of a First-In expedition to a world which, on Patrol charts, is named Lochan for the man who first made landfall there.
He spent a day in Landfall with Lotta, shopping for civilian clothes, then six days with his parents.
Blue Banks or to Noop or to Hermaness or any of the obvious places, where birds might be expected to make their first landfall.
On the day of their landfall they rowed hard for several hours to capture a frigate, but she was as bare of food as they.
Six million saft might have been a poor price for a Wu Morrison shuttle, but it was going to be enough for us to live like kings for the duration of our stay in Landfall.
As they drew closer and could finally pick out features of the coast, it was apparent that they had made landfall some miles north of Charleston Bay and Brandon brought the ship several points aport to correct.
An hour later, another medivac arrived from Landfall, this one with refrigeration chests.
When they had come abreast of the southmost cape, Cape Ito, Rodrigues had set the course West South West and had left the safety of the coast for the open sea, heading for a landfall at Cape Shinto two hundred miles away.
Senior Trader Shifty Stuart occasionally spat from the cud of tobacco in his cheek into the river, but be did not bother to look at the water, nor did he look back to the west, at Traderstown, which the vessel had just left His eyes were for the east, for Tworivertown, where he would shortly make landfall with his cargo of furs, hides, fine horn-bows, matchless felts and blankets of nomad weave, beautifully worked leather items and a vast assortment of oddments obtained by the far-ranging horse-nomads of the transriverine plains by trade or warfare from other folk farther west, south or north.
The howling wind, even hours before actual landfall, bowed the towering queen palms like ballerinas in a backbend, their fronds extended straight.
Dissa Banach and Ivor Purse had broken the Winter envelope and were about to make landfall.
They made their landfall at Yawata Saki, directly across the Chiba Peninsula from Tokyo Bay, with the sun just a few degrees off the horizon over Tokyo.
Because the same data you received yesterday is in locked-down launch configuration at fifty places in the Landfall dataflow, preprogrammed for high-impact delivery into every corporate stack in the Cartel.