1. One who lands or goes ashore.
1859. Tennyson, Enid, 330. The sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle.
1890. C. Martyn, W. Phillips, Agitator, 16. The famous landers on Plymouth Rock.
2. Mining. The man who ‘lands’ the kibble at the mouth of the shaft.
1847. in Halliwell.
1865. J. T. F. Turner, Slate Quarries, 8. Wagons … are filled by a party of men … called ‘fillers,’ while a similar number of ‘landers’ and ‘emptiers,’ at the surface, receive and dispose of their freight.
