cliftn.

Brit.

/klɪft/, U.S.

/klɪft/

Forms: Middle English clyfte, Middle English–1500s clifte, Middle English– clift, 1500s clyft.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: cliff n.

Etymology: Apparently an alteration of cliff n., arising from association of that word with cleft n. (compare forms with -i- and -y- at that entry).Very common in the 16th–18th centuries.

Now somewhat rare.

A cliff (in various senses).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > [noun]

staithec893

cliffeOE

overeOE

wartha1000

strandc1000

brimc1275

brinka1300

rivagec1330

water bankc1384

cleevea1387

watersidea1387

clifta1398

rival?a1400

shorec1400

water breach1495

common shorea1568

verge1606

praia1682

riva1819

splash zone1933

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > cliff > [noun]

cliffOE

cleoa1300

cleevec1300

rochec1300

clougha1400

heugha1400

brackc1530

clift1567

perpendicular1604

precipice1607

precipe1615

precipit1623

abrupt1624

scar1673

bluff1687

rock wall1755

krantz1785

linn1799

scarp1802

scaur1805

escarpment1815

rock face1820

escarp1856

hag1868

glint1906

scarping1909

stone-cliff1912

ledra1942

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxxiii. 1181 Þe cocodril..liþ by þe brynke or by þe clyfte [L. litus].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 17590 (MED) Þir caitif iuus Sent in-to cliftes [v.rr. clinttes, clif, clyffe] and in-to clous To seke iesu.

c1500 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Selden) (1879) l. 1497 This lady rombith by the clift [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 clyf] to pleye.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Eiij^v Through cliftes [L. per clivos], & fluddes.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B^v We wil walke vpon the lofty cliftes.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. vi. 62 High white clay clifts.

1679 Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 1. 6 A Clift all interwoven with Arborescent Marchasites.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 52 I clamber'd up the Clifts of the Shore.

1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 507 The perpendicular side of Chalk Clifts.

a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. J. W. von Goethe Scenes from Faust in Posthumous Poems (1824) 401 How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go.

1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. ii. 12 A hill which terminated..in a precipitous clift.

1888 C. D. Ferguson Experiences Forty-niner ix. 127 The Armstrongs used to bring up cattle..and herd them down by a little bend..perfectly hemmed in by high clifts of rocks.

1903 A. Strahan Geol. S. Wales Coal-field IV. iii. 26 Black rashes, fireclay, and clift.

1959 L. W. Roberts Up Cutshin & down Greasy v. 88 They had to turn and fight and risk being killed, or jump off that high clift.

2009 Proc. 17th Internat. IAAP Congr. for Analyt. Psychol. 2007 445 It is a place..with volcanic clifts jutting out towards a very blue ocean.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	clift
释义	cliftn. Brit. /klɪft/, U.S. /klɪft/ Forms: Middle English clyfte, Middle English–1500s clifte, Middle English– clift, 1500s clyft. Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: cliff n. Etymology: Apparently an alteration of cliff n., arising from association of that word with cleft n. (compare forms with -i- and -y- at that entry).Very common in the 16th–18th centuries. Now somewhat rare. A cliff (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > [noun] staithec893 cliffeOE overeOE wartha1000 strandc1000 brimc1275 brinka1300 rivagec1330 water bankc1384 cleevea1387 watersidea1387 clifta1398 rival?a1400 shorec1400 water breach1495 common shorea1568 verge1606 praia1682 riva1819 splash zone1933 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > cliff > [noun] cliffOE cleoa1300 cleevec1300 rochec1300 clougha1400 heugha1400 brackc1530 clift1567 perpendicular1604 precipice1607 precipe1615 precipit1623 abrupt1624 scar1673 bluff1687 rock wall1755 krantz1785 linn1799 scarp1802 scaur1805 escarpment1815 rock face1820 escarp1856 hag1868 glint1906 scarping1909 stone-cliff1912 ledra1942 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxxiii. 1181 Þe cocodril..liþ by þe brynke or by þe clyfte [L. litus]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 17590 (MED) Þir caitif iuus Sent in-to cliftes [v.rr. clinttes, clif, clyffe] and in-to clous To seke iesu. c1500 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Selden) (1879) l. 1497 This lady rombith by the clift [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 clyf] to pleye. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Eiij^v Through cliftes [L. per clivos], & fluddes. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B^v We wil walke vpon the lofty cliftes. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. vi. 62 High white clay clifts. 1679 Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 1. 6 A Clift all interwoven with Arborescent Marchasites. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 52 I clamber'd up the Clifts of the Shore. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 507 The perpendicular side of Chalk Clifts. a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. J. W. von Goethe Scenes from Faust in Posthumous Poems (1824) 401 How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. ii. 12 A hill which terminated..in a precipitous clift. 1888 C. D. Ferguson Experiences Forty-niner ix. 127 The Armstrongs used to bring up cattle..and herd them down by a little bend..perfectly hemmed in by high clifts of rocks. 1903 A. Strahan Geol. S. Wales Coal-field IV. iii. 26 Black rashes, fireclay, and clift. 1959 L. W. Roberts Up Cutshin & down Greasy v. 88 They had to turn and fight and risk being killed, or jump off that high clift. 2009 Proc. 17th Internat. IAAP Congr. for Analyt. Psychol. 2007 445 It is a place..with volcanic clifts jutting out towards a very blue ocean. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : cleftcliftn. also refers to : † cleftcliftv. < n.a1398 see also
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