cliff face

English

Noun

cliff face (plural cliff faces)

  1. The very steep, vertical, or overhanging section of rock, earth, or ice slope usually free of any vegetation or loose material.
    • 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:
      Using the countless tons of rock from the cliff-face, supplemented by much more from inland, they threw out a huge breakwater, 2,000 ft. long and 80 ft. high, roughly at right angles to the quay, so forming an almost completely sheltered corner. Fifty years later, this massive mole is still standing up to the worst that the Irish Sea can do.
    • 2021 October 20, “Network News: £25m to reduce Newport landslips”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8:
      Commencing next summer, 30,000 tonnes of cliff face will be removed, and mesh-and-bolt caging installed on a three-mile section to stabilise the surface and prevent rock falls.

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