[f. LAND sb. (OE. had lęndan of similar formation: see LEND v.)]
I. Transitive senses.
1. a. To bring to land; to set on shore; to disembark.
a. 1300. K. Horn, 779. A gode schup he hurede, Þat him scholde londe In Westene londe.
1508. Kennedie, Flyting w. Dunbar, 461. The skippar bad ger land the at the Bas.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., IV. xii. (1848), 246. I see the Water-man prepare to Land us.
1678. Wanley, Wond. Lit. World, V. ii. § 79. 472/1. He Landed an Army in Apulia.
1748. Anson’s Voy., II. xiv. 286. Our ships, when we should land our men, would keep at … a distance.
1838. Thirlwall, Greece, III. xx. 149. The troops, having been landed in Cephallenia.
1842. Campbell, Napoleon & Brit. Sailor, 64. He should be shipped to England Old And safely landed.
1894. Hall Caine, Manxman, V. iii. 288. Four hundred boats were coming … to land their cargoes.
b. To bring to the surface (from a mine). ? Obs.
1603. Owen, Pembrokeshire, xi. (1891), 21. These persons will Lande about … hundred barells of coale in a daye.
2. To bring into a specified place, e.g., as a stage in or termination of a journey; to bring into a certain position: usually with advb. phr. Also fig. to bring into a certain position or to a particular point in a course or process. (Cf. 8.)
1649. Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp., Ep. Ded. a 3 b. It is onely a holy life that lands us there [sc. in heaven].
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 57. This drain to be continued to that place where you have most conveniencie to land your water.
1850. McCosh, Div. Govt., II. i. (1874), 212. The pantheist, when compelled to explain himself, is landed in Atheism.
1856. Whyte-Melville, Kate Cov., xix. Now then, give us your hand; one foot on the box, one on the roller-bolt, and now you’re landed.
1859. Thackeray, Virgin., II. i. 4. Poor Harry’s fine folks have been too fine for him, and have ended by landing him here.
1874. Burnand, My Time, xxviii. 271. A jerk that nearly landed me on his [the horse’s] back.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 200. The pass over the Cottian Alps … would have landed Hannibal in the territory of the Taurini.
1882. Besant, Revolt of Man, vi. (1883), 126. Such a sermon … would infallibly land its composer … in a prison.
1892. Bookman, Oct., 29/2. His wife, his temperament, his philanthropy contrive to land him in fraudulent bankruptcy.
b. To set down from a vehicle. (Cf. 8 b.)
1851. Thackeray, Eng. Hum., iii. (1853), 108. The Exeter Fly … having … landed its passengers for supper and sleep. Ibid. (1859), Virgin., I. xxvii. 213. One chair after another landed ladies at the Baroness’s door.
1894. Mrs. H. Ward, Marcella, II. 267. His hansom landed him at the door of a great mansion.
c. slang. To set (a person) ‘on his feet.’
1868. Yates, Rock Ahead, II. vi. Lord Ticehurst, having done his duty in landing Gilbert [viz. by giving him an introduction], had strolled away.
1876. Hindley, Adv. Cheap Jack, 33. I bought a big covered cart and a good strong horse. And I was landed!
1879. ‘Autobiog. of a Thief,’ in Macm. Mag., XL. 502. I was landed (was all right) this time without them getting me up a lead (a collection).
d. Naut. To lower on to the deck or elsewhere by a rope or tackle.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., To land on deck. A nautical anomaly, meaning to lower casks or weighty goods on deck from the tackles.
1882. Nares, Seamanship (ed. 6), 61. Land them on the taffrail.
e. slang. To get (a blow) home.
1888. Runciman, Chequers, 93. Their object is to land one cunning blow.
1891. Gentl. Mag., Aug., 110. That’s right, Captain Kitty!… Land him [sc. the Devil] one in the eye.
f. Sporting colloq. (with and without compl.) To bring (a horse) ‘home,’ i.e., to the winning post; to place first in a race. Also intr. to get in first, win.
1853. Whyte-Melville, Digby Grand, I. vi. 151. St. Agatha … after one of the finest races on record, is landed a winner by a neck.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 291. A shower of flukes at the latter end landed him the winner.
1891. Licensed Victualler’s Gaz., 20 March (Farmer). Had the French filly landed, what a shout would have arisen from the ring!
1898. Daily News, 28 May, 8/3. The Prince’s colours were landed amid enthusiastic cheering.
3. Angling. To bring (a fish) to land, esp. by means of a gaff, hook or net. Also, to land the net.
1613. J. Dennys, Secrets Angling, II. xxi. Then with a net, see how at last he lands A mighty carp.
1653. Walton, Compl. Angler, iv. 105. Help me to land this as you did the other.
1787. [see LANDING-NET].
1867. F. Francis, Angling, viii. (1880), 297. When you have hooked a grayling your next job is to land him.
1873. Act 36 & 37 Vict., c. lxxi. § 14. Any person who shall … work any seine or draft net for salmon … within one hundred yards from … any other seine or draft net … before such last-mentioned net is fully drawn in and landed, shall … be liable [etc.].
1883. Manch. Exam., 30 Oct., 8/4. I will not trouble you with an account of the trout and grayling we landed during the first two or three days of our visit.
1884. Pae, Eustace, 62. They were pretty constantly engaged in shooting and landing the net.
b. fig. To catch or ‘get hold of’ (a person); to secure or win (a sum of money, esp. in betting or horse-racing).
1854. Whyte-Melville, Gen. Bounce, II. xx. 114. I landed a hundred gold mohrs by backing his new lot for the Governor-General’s Cup.
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown, II. vii. You must be gentle with me if you want to land me.
1876. ‘Ouida,’ Winter City, vi. 143. So that they land their bets, what do they care?
1884. Black, in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 24/1. I can’t say I’ve landed a fortune over its tips.
† 4. To throw (a bridge) across a river. Obs.
1637. Petit. to Chas. I., in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 91. They may be suffered at their owne chardge to land a bridge over ye river.
1638. Charles I., Lett. to King’s College, ibid. To permitt them at their owne charge to land a bridge from the middest of yt or Colledge.
† 5. To bestow land upon. Obs. nonce-use.
1624. Heywood, Captives, I. i. in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. Thou hast monied me in this, Nay landed me … And putt mee in a large possession.
6. a. To land up: to fill or block up (a watercourse, pond, etc.) partially or wholly with earth; to silt up.
1605. Willet, Hexapla Gen., 30. Gobaris caused the naturall current, landed vp, to be opened and enlarged.
1682. Bunyan, Holy War, 307. Diabolus sought to land up Mouthgate with dirt.
1793. R. Mylne, Rep. Thames & Isis, 16. These lands have a very imperfect drainage at present, by the watercourses and ditches being landed up.
1815. W. Marrat, Hist. Lincolnsh., III. 243. A serpentine fish pond, about 200 yards long, but partly landed up.
1851. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XII. II. 300. The river became landed up by the sediment of the tides.
b. To earth up (celery). Also with up.
a. 1806. Abercrombie, in Loudon, Gardening, III. i. (1822), 723. Repeat this … till by degrees they are landed up from twelve inches to two feet.
1856. [see LANDING vbl. sb. 2].
II. Intransitive senses.
7. To come to land; to go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark. Of a ship, etc.: To touch at a place in order to set down passengers.
In early use occas. conjugated with the verb to be.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Macc. iii. 42. The oost appliede, or londide, at the coostis of hem.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 151. Irisch Scottes londede at Argoyl.
c. 1400. Sir Beues, p. 24 (MS. S.). With her ship þere gon þey lond.
a. 1450. Le Morte Arth., 3054. He wende to haue landyd … At Dower.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, I. xvii. The Sarasyns ar londed in their countreyes mo than xl M.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 259 b. He had knowledge … that the Frenche army entended to land in the Isle of Wight.
1611. Bible, Acts xxi. 3. Now when wee had discouered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre.
1661. Dryden, To his Sacred Majesty, 9. Thus, royal Sir, to see you landed here Was cause enough of triumph for a year.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIII. 156. Behold him landed, careless and asleep, From all th’ eluded dangers of the deep!
1748. Anson’s Voy., II. xiii. 276. No place where it was possible for a boat to land.
1837. Marryat, Dog-fiend, xxii. The dog … landed at the same stairs where the boats land.
1882. Mrs. B. M. Croker, Proper Pride, I. ii. 11. Among the passengers who landed at Southampton from the Peninsular and Oriental Rosetta.
8. lit. and fig. To arrive at a place, a stage in a journey, or the like; to come to a stage in a progression; to end in something. (Cf. 2.)
1679. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 153. Landing by the first pair of Stairs with your Face towards the East.
1721. Ramsay, Elegy Patie Birnie, iii. When strangers landed.
1726. Wodrow Corr. (1843), III. 243. Thus this matter is entered on; where it will land, the Lord himself direct. Ibid. (1727), 304. If any subordination and dependence [of the Persons of the Trinity] … were asserted, he could not but think it would land in a dependent and independent God.
b. To alight upon the ground, e.g., from a vehicle, after a leap, etc. (Cf. 2 b.)
1693. Southerne, Maid’s last Prayer, III. ii. Lady Susan. There’s a Coach stopt, I hope ’tis hers. Jano. ’Tis my Lady Trickit’s; she’s just Landed.
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4427/14. To receive them as they Landed out of their Coaches.
1814. Sporting Mag., XLIII. 287. The spot where the horse took off to where he landed is above eighteen feet.
1837. Marryat, Dog-fiend, xxxvii. It landed among some cabbage-leaves.
† c. fig. To fall, light (upon). Obs.
a. 1670. Hacket, 2nd Serm. on Incarnat. (1675), 11. Each parcel of comfort landed jump … in the same model of Ground.
1727. Wodrow Corr. (1843), III. 304. We inquired into the reports, found them all land on Mr. Simson.
