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landfast

landfast adjective: connected or anchored to the land.

Adjective

landfast (not comparable)

  1. Connected or anchored to the land.
    • landfast sea ice
    • There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the...1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar

Origin of landfast

From land + fast.

Questions about landfast

What does landfast mean?
Landfast means connected or anchored to the land.
What part of speech is landfast?
Landfast is an adjective.

Words near landfast in the dictionary

  1. Landfairs
  2. landfall
  3. landfalling
  4. landfalls
  5. landfarming
  6. landfast
  7. landfill
  8. landfill indie
  9. landfill of history
  10. landfill site
  11. landfill sites

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