Landfall
Hi, I'd like to know the meaning of 'landfall' in this paragraph.
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One flesh. Or, if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends. How can I assume a harbour? A lee shore, more likely, a black night, a deafening gale, breakers ahead - and any lights shown from the land probably being waved by wreckers. Such was H.'s landfall. Such was my mother's. I say their landfalls; not their arrivals.
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The writer lost his mom and wife of cancer. Here he is describing their death. The Merriam-Webster gives a few different definitions; a sighting of a land after a voyage, a reaching of land, the land first sighted on a voyage.
Which one would be the best fit this context?
Thank you again!!
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fort lee The writer lost his mom and wife of cancer. to cancer fort lee Which one would be the best fit this context? Landfall is the sighting of land at the end of a voyage.
- fort lee The writer lost his mom and wife of cancer.
- to cancer fort lee Which one would be the best fit this context?
- Landfall is the sighting of land at the end of a voyage.
- This is the nautical meaning and the one meant here.
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fort leeThe writer lost his mom and wife of cancer.
to cancer
fort leeWhich one would be the best fit this context?
Landfall is the sighting of land at the end of a voyage. This is the nautical meaning and the one meant here.
0fort leeThe Merriam-Webster gives a few different definitions; a sighting of a land after a voyage, a reaching of land, the land first sighted on a voyage.
Which one would be the best fit this context?
the land first sighted on a voyage
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