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landfall(dictionary)
Writ(law)
RIGHT, WRIT OF(law)
writ(encyclopedia)
writ(dictionary)
WRIT, practice(law)
WRIT OF DECEIT(law)
MESNE, WRIT of(law)
MONSTRAVERUNT, WRIT OF, Eng(law)

writ 1, noun (oh) and landfall (iou)


writ 1, noun (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin:]
a document from a court that orders someone to do or not to do something
::He issued a writ against the newspaper.
::The company has been served with a writ for damages.
-see also Holy Writ

landfall (iou)



landfall noun. E17.
[from LAND noun1 + FALL noun2.]
The arrival at or sighting of land from the sea. Now also, (an) arrival at land after a flight over the sea. E17.
make a good landfall, make a bad landfall meet with land in accordance with or contrary to one's navigational intentions.
C. Ryan Wreathed by flak bursts, the huge armada made landfall over the Dutch coast.
b. A place on land sighted or reached after a journey over the sea. L19.
T. Brassey The Bahamas will be for ever memorable as the landfall of Columbus.
c. A place where an undersea pipeline reaches land. L20.
Selling Today Aberdeen, the nearest landfall and port to the Forties field.
An unexpected inheritance of land. M18.