landeth

Verb

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
   • The plane is about to land.

   Synonyms:

   alight

2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
   • 10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108
3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
   • Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen.[…]A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried to land at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders.1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 303, column 1
5. (transitive) To bring to land.
   • It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
6. (informal, transitive) To capture or arrest.
   • `He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.'1920 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 151, column 3

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