hard-land

Variant of hard landing

hard landing definition

☆ hard landing

a landing, as of a rocket on the moon, made at relatively high speed, with an impact that may destroy all or much of the equipment

Related Forms:

  • hard-land hard′·-land′ intransitive verb, transitive verb

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