Definition of "dry land" []

• Land; as opposed to sea. (noun)

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• "It showed the merman's inexperience with the dry land that he would bring water breathers as guards against land-bound dangers."
• "They crossed from Wamma and ascended a stream not one of the channels that twisted through mangrove swamp into the center of Wokan, the northernmost island of the larger Aru group, until the swamp gave way to dry land and the stream brought them to a single native house."
• "From trough to crest they bounced their nomadic way past E-boats and searchlights, battleships and mines, their sailors singing lustily and their passengers wide-eyed, frozen, and tormented by nausea, eventually to arrive upon dry land and discover that its stillness made them sick."