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The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.

A country or region.

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

(in combination) Realm, domain.

(unplowed ground between furrows) (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows. +

(portions of a field for ploughing) (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing. +

(colloquial) A shock or fright.

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.

(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

(historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

To descend to a surface, especially from the air. +

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

To come into rest.

To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

To bring to land.

(informal) To capture or arrest.

To acquire; to secure.

To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.

(of a blow) To deliver.

(of a punch) To connect {{gl|to arrive at an intended target}}.

(figurative) To go down well with an audience.

lant; urine