What does make landfall mean?

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make landfall

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English

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(of a ship) To arrive on shore, or sight the shore.

makes landfall (present, singular) making landfall (participle, present) made landfall (participle, past) made landfall (past) make land (alternative)

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