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Clift vs Clint - What's the difference?

clift | clint |

As nouns the difference between clift and clint

is that clift is while clint is (geology) the relatively flat part of a limestone pavement between the grikes.

clift

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
  • *:So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift , / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away [...].
  • *1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
  • *:so broad is the bay here, we could scarce perceive the great high clifts on the other side: by them we Anchored that night and called them Riccards Cliftes.

    • Derived terms

    *clifty

    clint

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A male given name
    • English diminutives of male given names