landslip
(ˈlændslɪp)
The sliding down of a mass of land on a mountain or cliff side; land which has so fallen. Also fig. and attrib.
| 1679 Roxb. Ballads IV. 549 Paint dismal Ruin stalking in the rear, Than Landslip Desolation far and near. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 158 Those disruptions of hills, which are known by the name of land-slips. 1830 Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 276 There was an immense land-slip from this cliff, by which Dover was shaken as if by an earth⁓quake. 1872 Baker Nile Tribut. iv. 62 The valley was a succession of landslips and watercourses. 1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 281 Landslip lakes have been noticed by Lyell, and Gilbert records the formation of small lakes behind landslip terraces. |
Hence ˈlandslipped, ˈlandslippy adjs., characterized by landslips.
| 1885 H. O. Forbes Nat. Wand. E. Archip. 474 An eerie and dangerous path, dilapidated and often landslipped. 1893 G. Allen Scallywag I. 49 Where the rocks towards the slope were loosest and most landslippy. |