clifted
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From clift + -ed, from clift (“a cleft”).
Adjective
[edit]clifted (comparative more clifted, superlative most clifted)
- (obsolete) broken; fissured
- Having cliffs.
- 1835, Gerald Griffin, Tales of my neighbourhood:
- she had got to a safe distance from the clifted shore
- 1812, Robert Chapman, The picture of Glasgow:
- Climb the Andes' clifted side.
References
[edit]- “clifted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.