landfall

noun

The act or an instance of sighting or reaching land after a voyage or flight.

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The land sighted or reached after a voyage or flight.

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The reaching of land by an oceanic storm or a part, especially the eye, of a storm.

noun

A land-slide or land-slip.

noun

Nautical, an approach or a coming to land, in the course or at the end of a sea-voyage; also, land so approached or reached.

noun

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

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Sighting or making land when at sea.

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the sighting of land in conformity with the navigator’s reckoning and expectation.

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Arrival at the shore by ship.

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The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.