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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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A cliff.

[Obs.]

That gainst the craggy

clifts

did loudly roar.

Spenser.

Noun.

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Noun.

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A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.

[Obs.]

The fork of the legs; the crotch.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

clift ‎(plural clifts)

(now rare) A cliff. [from 14th 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.