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A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
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landslip
Word definitions for landslip in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The sliding of a mass of land down a slope or cliff; a landslide
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Landslide \Land"slide`\, Landslip \Land"slip`\, n. The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc. The land which slips down. An election victory in which the winning candidate receives a substantial majority of the votes, usually meaning ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from land (n.) + slip (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff [syn: landslide ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Particularly disastrous, but not uncommon, have been the effects of landslips and rock-falls into bodies of water. ▪ The storm section of the policy excludes landslip damage but the damage could be covered under the landslip ...
Usage examples of landslip.
Vast extinct volcanoes, lava wildernesses, tumbled wastes of snow, or frozen carbonic acid, or frozen air, and everywhere landslip seams and cracks and gulfs.
La Plata lay at the foot of a bright blistered hill forty clicks inside Landslip, and it seemed to Moura typical of what she had seen of that zonerather tumbledown and unprotected, and close-up deranged.
On land things had been bad enough, what with crop-failure, floods and landslips, but at sea they were infinitely worse.
Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance.
In a series of landslips what was left of Santa Maria vanished hour by hour.
Even so, they never made a camp without first inspecting the surrounding terrain for potential tunnels into the earth—old animal lairs, or landslips, ancient delvings, anything that would give them an easy access to whatever workings would be found below (for there were inevitably some).
I'll hire Bully Ransden en his team t' grub out the landslip and get the spring t' flowing agin.
Ill hire Bully Ransden en his team t grub out the landslip and get the spring t flowing agin.
Frequent landslips occurred, and in many places deep chasms rifted the ground.