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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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clift
noun
a waterfall, a cliff:
A water Clift! The clift – the waterfall is the only answer.
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etymology:
probably a development from Scots
clift
‘A fissure, crevice, crack, a stretch of coast containing these; a cleft’; attested by
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