landing : Idioms & Phrases


Landing charges

  • charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel.
Webster 1913

Landing net

  • noun a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water
WordNet
  • a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked.
Webster 1913

Landing place

  • noun structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
    landing.
WordNet
  • . me as Landing, n., 2 and 3.
Webster 1913

Landing stage

  • noun platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded
WordNet
  • a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.
Webster 1913

Landing waiter

  • a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.
Webster 1913