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  clift

  noun

  cliff.
• Clift
  Clift

  noun

  Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.

clift

¹ American  

[klift] / klɪft /

noun

South Midland U.S.

1. cliff.

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Clift ² American  

[klift] / klɪft /

noun

1. Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.

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Etymology

Origin of clift

1350–1400; Middle English, alteration of cliff (perhaps by influence of cleft ¹ )

Example Sentences

Then I sot myself to scramble down the face of the clift; and, I tell you, I sweat before I got to the bottom.

From Outpost by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)

Bobby called it "clift," after the manner of the people on the Indian Kaintuck.

From Queer Stories for Boys and Girls by Eggleston, Edward

We had been carried into a clift where there is a coastguard station; and the good men had come down and were helping us on shore. 

From Modern Broods by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

As we before observed, the cottage was built upon a high land, which terminated in a precipitous clift about two hundred yards distant, and running in a direct line to the westward.

From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Marryat, Frederick

E'en now I'm pillow'd on a bed of flowers That crowns a lofty clift, which proudly towers Above the ocean-waves.

From Poems 1817 by Keats, John