| 单词 | to make a good landfall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a good (or bad) landfall a. Nautical. An approach to or sighting of land, esp. for the first time on a sea-voyage. to make a good (or bad) landfall: to meet with land in accordance with (or contrary to) one's reckoning. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > arrival arrivinga1387 arrivala1393 rival?a1400 riving?a1400 rivagec1400 arrivagec1450 landfall1627 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > meet land according or contrary to reckoning to make a good (or bad) landfall1627 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 43 A good Land fall is when we fall iust with our reckoning, if otherwise a bad Land fall. 1670 Narborough in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 79 The best Land-fall in my Opinion, is to make the face of Cape Desseada for to come out of the South Sea to go into the Streight of Magellan. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 89 If his Reckoning in a long Voyage, jump with his Land-Fall, he's as exalted [etc.]. 1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors xviii. 280 It is not until a captain has made three or four good land-falls..just according to his calculations, that the living by faith in..the results upon his slate begins to come easy. 1891 J. Winsor Columbus ix. 214 Las Casas reports the journal of Columbus unabridged for a period after the landfall. < as lemmas |
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