landlocked
[land-lokt]
- shut in completely, or almost completely, by land: a landlocked bay.
- having no direct access to the sea: a landlocked country.
- living in waters shut off from the sea, as some fish.
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Origin of landlocked
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Examples from the Web for landlocked
Contemporary Examples
Flat, forested, and landlocked between Poland, Ukraine and Russia, it had never truly known national autonomy.
Forget Kim Jong Un—China’s New Favorite Dictator Is Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko.Kapil Komireddi
January 28, 2014
An armada of sand crabs hefting a landlocked ship on their backs.
The name of the landlocked central Asian republic doesn't roll off the tongue.
Historical Examples
Trout by nature, and landlocked salmon by artificial planting.
Days OffHenry Van Dyke
Our hearts may be like some landlocked lake that knows no tide.
Expositions of Holy ScriptureAlexander Maclaren
John Denny said they were all onannaniche or landlocked salmon.
Sport in Vancouver and NewfoundlandJohn Rogers
Unless we have reached the mainland, this must be a landlocked bay.
The Island of Yellow SandsE. C. [Ethel Claire] Brill
This caldron-like, or landlocked sea, is evidently the Irish sea.
Phallic MiscellaniesHargrave Jennings
landlocked
- (of a country) completely surrounded by land
- (esp of lakes) completely or almost completely surrounded by land
- (esp of certain salmon) living in fresh water that is permanently isolated from the sea
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Word Origin and History for landlocked
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