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English
Etymology
From land + fast.
Adjective
landfast (not comparable)
- Connected or anchored to the land.
- landfast sea ice
1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar:There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From land + fast.
Adjective
landfast (indefinite singular landfast, definite singular and plural landfaste)
- joined / linked to / by land
- connected to the mainland (of an island)
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From land + fast.
Adjective
landfast (indefinite singular landfast, definite singular and plural landfaste)
- joined / linked to / by land
- connected to the mainland (of an island)
References