land

In a general sense denotes terra firma, as distinguished from sea; but, also, land-laid, or to lay the land, is just to lose sight of it.

♦ Land-locked is when land lies all round the ship.

♦ Land is shut in, signifies that another point of land hides that from which the ship came.

♦ The ship lies land to, implies so far from shore that it can only just be discerned.

♦ To set the land, is to see by compass how it bears.

♦ To make the land. To sight it after an absence.

♦ To land on deck. A nautical anomaly, meaning to lower casks or weighty goods on deck from the tackles.