3. To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to
bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake;
to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in
difficulties or mistakes.
Land, v. i. To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come
to the end of a course.
Lan"dam*man (?), n. [G. Landamman; land land, country + amimann
bailiff. See Land, and Ambassador.] 1. A chief magistrate in some of
the Swiss cantons.