Meanings
plural landing places
- nauticalA place suitable for embarking onto or disembarking from a boat or ship.
Long before the pier was built, Creggans (from the Gaelic creagan, meaning 'rock' or 'crag'), as this part of Strachur has always been known, was a regular landing place for boats, and it is here that Mary, Queen of Scots landed when she came to Strachur more than four-hundred years ago.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 277
Synonyms & antonyms
nounstructure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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