"clift" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /klɪft/ [UK] Forms: clifts [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪft Etymology: Variant form of cliff, influenced by cleft. Head templates: {{en-noun}} clift (plural clifts)
  1. (obsolete) A cliff. Tags: obsolete Derived forms: clifted, clifty
    Sense id: en-clift-en-noun-hQXse2g8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -th, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 35 17 20 13 1 6 7 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -th: 23 16 17 18 3 14 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 71 6 10 4 1 4 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 71 5 13 4 1 3 3

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Variant form of cliff, influenced by cleft.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clifts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clift (plural clifts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 17 20 13 1 6 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 16 17 18 3 14 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English terms suffixed with -th",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 6 10 4 1 4 4",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 5 13 4 1 3 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "clifted"
        },
        {
          "word": "clifty"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 91:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cliff."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "cliff",
          "cliff"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A cliff."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/klɪft/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪft"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clift"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms suffixed with -th",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Anatomy",
    "enm:Landforms",
    "enm:Surgery"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "clifted"
    },
    {
      "word": "clifty"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Variant form of cliff, influenced by cleft.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clifts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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    }
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪft",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪft/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 91:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A cliff."
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      ],
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        "(obsolete) A cliff."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/klɪft/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɪft"
    }
  ],
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}

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