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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The torrent flies over the thunder-struck clift With many and many a call; The leaves are swept down, and a dolorous drift Is hurried away with the fall.
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry
An' thin he begun a peckin' away at the clift fur dear life, shwearin' to himself, so the saint cudn't hear him, every time he give his knuckles an onlucky crack wid the hammer.
From Irish Wonders by McAnally, D. R. (David Russell)
It’s all dangerous ’long here; and Master Shackle wouldn’t let young Ram here go along these here clift slopes without me to take care on him.”
From Cutlass and Cudgel by Schonberg, J.
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
Still he had approached so near to the edge of the clift that his view below was not interrupted by his change of posture—Another flash of lightning.—It was enough!
From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Marryat, Frederick
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