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Definition of Landing place

1. Noun. Structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Landing Place

Literary usage of Landing place

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society by Connecticut Historical Society (1897)
"Caleb Standly <fe to Richard Edwards to Each of them A peice of Land of twenty foots Square at ye Comon landing place at Hartford for Each of them to buld ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Innkeepers and Pledge by James Schouler (1897)
"Opportunity to alight; Proper Landing-place, etc. — At the proper station or landing-place for his passengers, the carrier should give time and a fair ..."

3. A Documentary History of Chelsea: Including the Boston Precincts of by Mellen Chamberlain, Jenny Chamberlain Watts, William Richard Cutter, Massachusetts Historical Society (1908)
"... Merry's Point having been chosen as the future landing-place for the ferry, an agreement was then entered into between the selectmen and John Greenough, ..."

4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1885)
"ANDRE'S LANDING-PLACE AT HAVERSTRAW A MOOTED QUESTION SETTLED Among the localities made memorable by events in our Revolutionary history and worthy of being ..."

5. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1885)
"ANDRE'S LANDING-PLACE AT HAVERSTRAW A MOOTED QUESTION SETTLED Among the localities made memorable by events in our Revolutionary history and worthy of being ..."

6. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Waterfall of 260 feet near the Mount- Bin House.—Leave the Mountain for the Landing-place.—Character of the Scenery above Catskill. ..."

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