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landing strip
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
landing strip
noun
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▪ At Dungavel House, where the Duke of Hamilton had his residence, there was a private landing strip.
▪ He has overshot the landing strip again.
▪ In December 1991 he often visited a nearby farm landing strip and talked to microlight owners and examined their aircraft.
▪ It is obvious that it will miss the landing strip and arrive wing first.
▪ She adjusts her hat, a round bush hat, and walks towards the makeshift landing strip.
▪ The landing strip had been described to me in some detail.
▪ The landing strip was closed about 1930.
▪ The east shore of the bay had no airport landing strip, no railhead, no long-distance bus terminal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
landing strip

landing strip \land"ing strip`\, n. (Aeronautics) A runway at an airport, at which airplanes land[3]; the long smooth surface used for takeoff or landing[4].

Wiktionary
landing strip

n. 1 (context aviation English) A runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary. 2 (context idiomatic English) A cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle.

WordNet
landing strip

n. an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn: airstrip, flight strip, strip]