clift
noun
clift
1 American
[klift]
/ klɪft /
noun
South Midland U.S.
Clift
2
American
[klift]
/ klɪft /
noun
Etymology
Origin of clift
1350–1400; Middle English, alteration of cliff (perhaps by influence of cleft 1 )
Example Sentences
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I fell over a rock clift twenty feet down, and if ’t hadn’t been for the laurel I’d a-bruk some bones.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
“I will go up to the clift, and try if I can make her out;” and the parties separated upon their mutual work of sympathy and good will.
From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Marryat, Frederick
He knew of another secret spot—a deep cleft near the edge of the clift overhanging the spring.
From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
O, I could long like thy cold icicles Freeze, freeze, and hang upon the frosty clift And not complain, so I might melt at last In the warm summer sun, as thou wilt do!
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean
The songs austere of the forests drear, And the echoes of clift and cave, When the dark is keen where the storm hath been, Fleet over the far-away grave.
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry
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