Vocabulary Homework Help?
“They MADE THEIR LANDFALL a couple thousand miles south of Newfoundland-perhaps in order to be closer to the Spanish- and explored the coast south of Chesapeake Bay.
made their landfall means:
A) sighted land
B) spent their evening
C) Made camp
D) set sail
Favorite Answer
Acutally that is truely a crappy definition from your teacher… It really means to get to land…not just sight it.
“to bring to land,” c.1300, from land (n.). Originally of ships; of fish, in the angling sense, from 1613; hence fig. sense of “to obtain” (a job, etc.), first recorded 1854. Of aircraft, attested from 1916. Landing for boats is from 1609; of stairs, first attested 1789. Landfall “sighting of land” (1627) is from fall in the sense of “happen.”
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