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Definition of Touch down
1. Verb. Come or bring (a plane) to a landing. "The plane touched down at noon"
Definition of Touch down
1. Verb. (aviation) To land an aircraft. ¹
2. Verb. (American football) To score a touchdown ¹
3. Verb. (rugby) To score a try. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touch Down
Literary usage of Touch down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"If the touch-down is in the player's own goal, he must send the ball by a "kick-out."
If any player, guarding his own goal, receives the ball from his own ..."
2. Walter Camp's Book of College Sports by Walter Camp (1900)
"A "touch-down" is made when a player carries the ball across his opponent's goal
line and there has it down, ie, either cries " Down " or puts it on the ..."
3. Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts (1891)
"If he succeeds it is called a " goal from touch down," and counts 6 points.
If he fail, Yale is credited with merely a " touch down. ..."
4. The Sports and Pastimes of American Boys: A Guide and Text-book of Games of by Henry Chadwick (1884)
"But should he carry the ball over his own goal line and touch it down it is a
safety touch down. These safety touch downs, in the American code, ..."
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