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▪ I. clift, n.1
The earlier and more etymological form of the n. now usually made cleft, q.v.
▪ II. clift, n.2|klɪft|
[A by-form of cliff, due to confusion between that word and clift, cleft, a fissure. Exceedingly common in 16–18th c., and used by some writers in the 19th c.]
= cliff (in its various applications).
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1493 Hipsiphile & Medea, This lady rombith by the clift to pleye. 1567Drant Horace Ep. xiii. E iij, Through cliftes [L. per clivos] & fluddes. 1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. i. ii, We will walk upon the lofty cliftes. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. vi. 62 High white clay clifts. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. iii. 52, I clamber'd up the Clifts of the Shore. 1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 507 The perpendicular side of Chalk Clifts. a1822Shelley Scenes fr. Faust Wks. 704 How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. 1832Marryat N. Forster ii, A high land, which terminated in a precipitous clift.
▪ III. clift, -ed, -ing
see cleft-. |