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  • noun the steeply sloping side of a canyon

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Examples

  • A rocky path leading down from the rim ends at a typical Tarahumara dwelling - a cave in the canyonside, with a natural spring as its running water supply and an open-air kitchen and dining-room.

    Mexico's Copper Canyon 2008

  • A rocky path leading down from the rim ends at a typical Tarahumara dwelling - a cave in the canyonside, with a natural spring as its running water supply and an open-air kitchen and dining-room.

    Mexico's Copper Canyon 2008

  • The knife skitters across the pink sloping canyonside.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • The knife skitters across the pink sloping canyonside.

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004

  • The knife skitters across the pink sloping canyonside.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • The knife skitters across the pink sloping canyonside.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • That means climbing three thousand meters up the canyonside over a short dis'tance.

    Voyage To The City Of The Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

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