1815 31 Oct. The base..is rugged and broken, presenting to the eye of a spectator in the bay a bluff precipice, or cliff-like appearance.
1856 R. W. Emerson i. 21 Carlyle..was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow.
1970 J. Dunbar 16 Here were gaunt streets with clifflike rows of houses.
2004 June 36/1 I have just walked past an almost cliff-like slope where forensic lines of seed potatoes are being put down by hand.