landfall : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: landfall	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for landfall
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
landfall 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)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Landfall \Land"fall\, n. 1. A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner. 2. (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.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Landfall, MN (city, FIPS 35414) Location: 44.95010 N, 92.97745 W Population (1990): 685 (314 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)