landfast

English

Etymology

From land +‎ fast.

Adjective

landfast (not comparable)

1. 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

• sandflat

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From land +‎ fast.

Adjective

landfast (indefinite singular landfast, definite singular and plural landfaste)

1. joined / linked to / by land
2. connected to the mainland (of an island)

References

• “landfast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “landfast” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From land +‎ fast.

Adjective

landfast (indefinite singular landfast, definite singular and plural landfaste)

1. joined / linked to / by land
2. connected to the mainland (of an island)

References

• “landfast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.