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lander

  • noun
  • land·er
  • [ˈlændə]

One who lands, or who lands something.

Other meanings

  1. A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.

  2. A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.

A kind of

  • spacecraft

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “lander” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.