Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Sick for sight of the land.
  • Affected by proximity to land, as a ship; not moving freely from being too near the land or just released from an anchorage.

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Examples

  • Thus we landed on Endeavour Island, as we came to it, land-sick from long custom of the sea.

    Chapter 28 2010

  • You, Mr. Marine, land-logged, land-sick, trying out your web feet in wading through the muddy depths of Europe instead of wading ashore through the roaring surr-yip! hi-ho, and a bottla grape juice!

    The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

  • Thus we landed on Endeavor Island, as we came to it, land-sick from long custom of the sea.

    Chapter 28 1904

  • Thus we landed on Endeavour Island, as we came to it, land-sick from long custom of the sea.

    The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896

  • The grief of a father and a mother can only be conceived by them who, as fathers and mothers, have suffered the loss of their bairns, -- a treasure more precious to nature than silver or gold, home to the land-sick sailor, or daylight to the blind man sitting beaking in the heat of the morning sun.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • The grief of a father and a mother can only be conceived by them who, as fathers and mothers, have suffered the loss of their bairns, -- a treasure more precious to nature than silver or gold, home to the land-sick sailor, or daylight to the blind man sitting beaking in the heat of the morning sun.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • "Ay, ay, 'tis likely; if it had been me, I should have been land-sick before this -- ware round, boys, and stand by to heave to on the other tack."

    The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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