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noun

Landing n.

1.

A going or bringing on shore.

2.

A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.

3.

(Arch.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

4.

(Aeronautics) The act or process of bringing an aircraft to land after having been in the air; as, the pilot made a perfect three-point landing. Contrasted with take-off.

Landing place. me as Landing, n., 2 and 3.

adjective

Landing adj. Of, pertaining to, or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.

Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel.

Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked.

Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.

Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.

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"Landing" Quotes from Famous Books

... door with trembling hands and let her out. At the foot of the stairs she stopped and let him walk ahead. When he reached the landing he waited for her; then he opened the door with his key and held it for her. When she was inside ...

— Shallow Soil • Knut Hamsun

... Schulenberg?" said Phillida, as she encountered the mother on the landing in front of her door. "How ...

— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston

... at his side his pretty little cherry-faced girl of a wife, Henrietta Peabody, daughter of William Peabody, who, be it known, is old Sylvester's oldest son. There also emerged from the one-horse gig, after the captain had made ground, and jumped his little wife to the same landing in his arms, a red-faced boy, who must have been closely stowed somewhere, for he came out of the vehicle highly colored, and looking very much as if he had been sat upon for a couple of hours or more. The Captain having ...

— Chanticleer - A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family • Cornelius Mathews

... accession of King George he was a Jacobite at heart; which throws some doubt on his assertion in a letter that there are very few Tories—or outlaws—in Kerry, where the Whig rule was never enforced with great severity. He was, however, committed to 'Trally jail' (i.e. Tralee) on the fear of a landing by the Pretender, whence he wrote pleading letters, in one of which he mentions that his son-in-law, MacCartie, has taken the oaths of abjuration; and later, when released, he seems to have been disturbed at the ...

— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... the plantation, but it was only fifteen miles to the river, and Major Waldron would go down to New Orleans every winter to lay in his year's supplies, which were shipped by steamboats to the landing and hauled from there to the plantation. It was a jolly time for both white and black when the wagons came from the river; there were always boxes of fruits and candies and nuts, besides large trunks which were carried into the store-room ...

— Diddie, Dumps, and Tot • Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle

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