cliffage
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The right to quarry limestone from the cliffs of the Gower, or the payment charged for…
The right to quarry limestone from the cliffs of the Gower, or the payment charged for this right.
- Rights of 'cliffage' were awarded to farming tenants who could quarry the limestone from the slopes of Pwlldu Head, which was then shipped across the water to Devon where it was burned to make agricultural lime. The quarried stone was ...
Cliffs, collectively.
- To the north rose the dull cliffage of Newfoundland, bleak and gray-green - yet a streak of companionship in this vast loneliness. As we neared the summit of La Grande Vigie we obtained a good view of the other islands of the group ...
- It's supposed to look particularly impressive in winter, when the water freezes, the pure white of the snow glistening in contrast to the burnt umber of the surrounding cliffage. We talk about fears rooted in our childhoods.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA