A steep slope or hillside; = cleeve, n. 2. Obsolete.

A steeply sloping area of ground; a steep hillside. English regional (south-western) in later use.

A steep slope or declivity of a hill. Now local.

A steep, a slope, a hillside. (Called in south of England a hill, as in Ludgate or Holborn Hill; in the north a ‘hill’ is always a mount or…

The declivity or slope of a mountain, hill, cliff; a steep or precipitous place.

concrete. A steep part or slope of a hill, etc.

A steep slope. Obsolete.

A very steep declivity. Cf. perpendicular, adj. 3. Obsolete. rare.

A trench or hollow running down a hill; a steep slope.

A steep place or ascent; a rugged rise or point.

The steep face of a hill; = escarp, n. 2.

Geology. ‘The abrupt face or cliff of a ridge or hill range’ (Page). Also attributive.

The sharp slope of a hill. Scottish.

transferred. A natural formation of a similar kind.

English regional (Yorkshire). A broken or rocky bank or slope; an outcrop of rock; a cliff. Cf. heugh, n. 1.

A precipitous descent; a place from which a person must jump. U.S. colloquial.

The steep scarp-face of a cuesta.

a scarp directly produced by throw at a fault.

A steep slope; the rocky face of a hill. †Also plural the amount of slope or batter in an escarp.

a scarp produced secondarily along a fault-line by erosion, etc.

A nearly vertical slope, from the base of which springs emerge, at the head of a pocket valley (see pocket, n. adj.phrases 2).

An escarpment. Australian local.