(orig. of boat society women) to marry into a dry-land family; → (of women) to marry into a family of higher social class; (of female prostitutes) to marry | Also: 食井水; 埋街食井水

to make landfall; to make a landing (from the sea or river); (of travellers) to disembark from a boat, ship or ferry; to come ashore

to describe residents who once live on water move ashore/to describe residents who live on water marry someone who lives on land

(orig. of boat society women) to marry into a dry-land family; → (of women) to marry into a family of higher social class; to marry into a family of means and to live comfortably because of it; (of female prostitutes, a euphemism) to marry | Literally, "to consume well-water", the inference is that the woman is no longer sourcing her drinking and cooking water from rivers and streams, but from wells, as dry-land people traditionally do | Also: 埋街食井水; 埋街