Green’s Dictionary of Slang

terra firma n.

[Lat. terra firma, land, as opposed to sea]

a landed estate.

[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Terra-firma an Estate in Land, also a Continent. Has the Cull any Terra Firma? Has the Fool any Land?
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Sl. Dict.