Undercliff

Word UNDERCLIFF
Character 10
Hyphenation un der cliff
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Undercliff"

What do we mean by undercliff?

A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

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The word "undercliff" in example sentences

Two significant commercially owned landholdings occur on the Isle of Portland, located in the northern and north-eastern parts of the undercliff and coastline. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We need to use the brilliant kernel to light up the undercliff and the cave so that our abilities and expertise are used to face our common challenges, wherever they may be. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The wildly erratic disorder has been covered with a lovely profusion of flowers and plants in the sheltered valleys and ravines of this miniature Switzerland, and the whole undercliff as far as ❋ Edric Holmes (N/A)

The coast at Branscombe is wildly beautiful, and an interesting ramble may be taken at low tide among the masses of rock that form a sort of undercliff; the miniature valleys between are carpeted with rare and beautiful flowers. ❋ Edric Holmes (N/A)

The undercliff has not in the least the barren look of an ordinary bit of waste ground touching the shore, but is covered with grass and thick undergrowth, oaks and hawthorns, and masses of ivy, and beneath them the long spear-like leaves and scarlet-berried pods of the wild-iris. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)

[5] Those who have seen the undercliff in the Isle of Wight will be able to form some idea of the terraces of the lunar ring-mountains, as they are very similar formations. ❋ Mark Wicks (N/A)

On the summit of the cliff a delightful drive has been constructed, while an undercliff drive, extending for a mile and a half between Bournemouth Pier and ❋ Sidney Heath (1907)

Eastwards the cape slopes inland at a gentler angle with an undercliff, a narrow plateau, and behind the plateau mountain walls. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Theophilus the Goth might tell them the modest beginnings of Teutonic Christianity among his countrymen of the Crimean undercliff. ❋ Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1880)

One day, after Dolly had been a fortnight at Upcombe, the Compsons gave a picnic in the wild Combe undercliff. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

The route starts at the Volks Electric Railway station, which is the oldest operating electric railway in the world, and for most of the outward journey follows the undercliff walkway. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Description: Hanover down to seafront. along cliffs to rottingdean. drop down to undercliff pass and along to Saltdean. ❋ Timbo (2009)

After this we fetched ashore the tool-chest and some loose articles that we judged to be necessary -- such as the cooking-pot, binoculars, and a spare coil or two of rope and a ship's mallet; and Farrell searched the undercliff for sea-birds 'eggs, whilst I gave the boat a cleansing with baler and sponge, redded her up after a fashion, and finally moored her off with a shore-line, some twenty yards out on the placid water. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

And therewith she pointed to a place where the stream ran in a chain of pools and stickles, and a sheer cliff rose up some fifty paces beyond it, but betwixt the stream and the cliff was a smooth table of greensward, with three fair thorn bushes thereon, and it went down at each end to the level of the river's lip by a green slope, but amidmost, the little green plain was some ten feet above the stream, and was broken by a little undercliff, which went down sheer into the water. ❋ William Morris (1865)

Hallblithe looked steadily round about seeking his foe; but the haven was empty of ship or boat; so he ran his eye along the shore to see where he should best lay his keel and as aforesaid there was no beach there, and the water was deep right up to the grassy lip of the land; though the tides ran somewhat high, and at low water would a little steep undercliff go up from the face of the sea. ❋ William Morris (1865)

After travelling another mile we found ourselves at the head of a large and picturesque estuary which lay north and south; the native path ran along its shores, which were of great richness and beauty, and the estuary itself lay to our west and was about two miles across; on the east a series of rich undercliff limestone hills gradually rose into lofty and precipitate ranges, between which and the estuary was the fertile valley along which we wound our weary way; while groups of graceful acacias with their airy and delicate foliage gave a great charm to this beautiful spot. ❋ George Grey (1855)

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