Crossword clues for landslip
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 at least ten per cent more than any opposing candidate.
Any overwhelming victory.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The sliding of a mass of land down a slope or cliff; a landslide
WordNet
n. a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff [syn: landslide]
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.