rockface

American  

[rok-feys] / ˈrɒkˌfeɪs /

noun

1. an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.

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Etymology

Origin of rockface

First recorded in 1850–55; rock ¹ + face

Example Sentences

This compares with one in 95,435 for the section with a tolerable risk, where the rockface is set much further back from the path.

From BBC

This would be similar to the measures in place on the rockface below Edinburgh Castle.

From BBC

Elsewhere in Switzerland, above the resort of Kandersteg, in the Bernese Oberland region, a rockface has become unstable, threatening the village.

From BBC

She stood 60 feet tall above the tunnel on Malibu Canyon Road, and for nine months in the happening year of 1966, the Northridge artist Lynne Westmore Bloom slung on nylon ropes and climbed the rockface by full moonlight to erase the old graffiti, then to sketch and paint the lady.

From Los Angeles Times

Growing up on his family fjord farm on an unimaginably steep Norwegian mountainside, Magne Åkernes learned to live with risk at every turn—especially around a crack hidden in the rockface.

From National Geographic