A high and very steep rock face, typically having exposed strata.

A cliff, steep slope, or hillside. Cf. cleeve, n.

A high, very steep rock face; = cliff, n. 1. Obsolete.

A large rock formation on land or in water; a cliff, a crag; = rock, n.1 1. In later use only in the name of particular crags in the Peak District.

Occasionally it seems to have been = ‘cliff’.

A precipitous or hanging descent; a craggy or rugged steep; a precipice, cliff, or scaur; most commonly, one overhanging a river or the sea.

A cliff, crag, or rock.

A cliff (in various senses).

Esp. with the: a line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line, plane, or surface; the state or condition of being at right…

A high and vertical or very steep rock face; a crag, a cliff. Also: a gulf, an abyss.

An abrupt or steep descent; a precipice. Also figurative.

= precipice, n. 1.

An abrupt or steep place; a precipice; a chasm, an abyss. Obsolete.

A lofty, steep face of rock upon a mountainside; a precipice, cliff.

A cliff or headland with a broad precipitous face. (First used in North America, and still mostly of American landscapes.)

(a) a wall or vertical surface made of rock, esp. a rock face; (b) North American a stone fence.

A wall of rock encircling a mountain or summit; hence, more widely, any precipitous or overhanging wall of rocks bordering high ground or hemming…

A precipice, a ravine with precipitous sides.

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

A precipitous bank; a cliff; the ridge of a hill.

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

A bare vertical surface of natural rock. Also figurative.

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.

An escarpment of almost horizontal strata formed as a result of denudation of the adjacent lower rocks. Also attributive, as glint lake n. a lake…

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

A cliff, steep hill.