cliff

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For the cliff is alright if you're careful they said, and if folks ever slip and are falling; it's not the slipping and falling that hurts them

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  1. noun A high, steep, or overhanging face of rock.

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  1. Middle English clif, from Old English.

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  1. Early modern English clife (plural cleeves, cleves), from Middle English clif, clef (dative clife, clefe, clive, cleve, plural clives, cleves, clevis, etc.), from Anglo-Saxon clif (plural clifu, cleofu) (= Old Saxon klif = Dutch klif = Low German klif, a cliff, a rock, = Icelandic klif = Old High German kleb), a cliff, prob. orig. a place climbed or to be climbed, from clīfan (past participle *clifen), in comp. ōthclīfan, adhere, = Icelandic klīfa, climb: see clive and cleave. The Middle Dutch klippe, kleppe, Dutch klip = Low German klippe (later G. klippe) = Danish klippe = Swedish klippa, a cliff, crag, are apparently of other origin; cf. clip.
 

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