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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant form of cliff, influenced by cleft.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clift (plural clifts)
- (obsolete) A cliff. [14th–19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away [...].
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 91:
- so broad is the bay here, we could scarce perceive the great high clifts on the other side: by them we Anchored that night and called them Riccards Cliftes.
Derived terms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old English ġeclyft, from Proto-Germanic *kluftiz; equivalent to cleven + -th.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clift (plural cliftes)
- A cleft; a fission, fissure, or split in something.
- A slash wound; an injury from an instance of slicing, cleaving, rupturing or cutting.
- The fork in one's legs or behind; a bodily cleft.
- (rare) A cliff or bank.
- (rare) A slicing for surgical reasons.
- (rare) A shard or piece of something.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “clift, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-31.
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