clift

Etymology

Variant form of cliff, influenced by cleft.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /klɪft/

Noun

clift (plural clifts)

1. (obsolete) A cliff. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:

     So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away [...].

   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:

     so broad is the bay here, we could scarce perceive the great high clifts on the other side: by them we Anchored that night and called them Riccards Cliftes.