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English
English : habitational name, perhaps from Lepton in West Yorkshire, which is named from Old English hlēp ‘leap’ (hence ‘cliff’, ‘steep slope’) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English : probably a variant of Leverton.
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Settlement by the Cliff; Ford Near the Cliff; Form of Clifford
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English : habitational name from any of various places called Clifford, for example in Devon, Gloucestershire, West Yorkshire, and in particular Herefordshire. The place name is derived from Old English clif ‘slope’ + ford ‘ford’.A family of this name trace their descent from Walter de Clifford, who acquired the surname from Clifford Castle near Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in the 12th century.
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English : habitational name from any of numerous places named Clifton, from Old English clif ‘slope’ (see Cliff) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
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From the town near a cliff.
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From the Farm Near the Cliff
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English : habitational name from a place named with Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘bank’, ‘cliff’, or a topographic name from the same word. The Old English word was used not only in the sense of modern English cliff but also of much gentler slopes and frequently also of a riverbank.
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English American
River ford near a cliff.
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From the Farm Near the Cliff
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English
English : variant spelling of Cliff.
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Originally a short form of English Clifford ("cliff river crossing)", this name became an independent name, CLIFF means simply "cliff."
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From the Cliff Land
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Near the Cliff
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Ford Near the Cliff; Name of a Place; Near a Slope
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a crevice in rock, from Middle English clift ‘cleft’.English : probably a variant of Cliff.
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Settlement on a cliff. From an Old English surname and place name, used only occasionally as a...
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From a Town Near a Cliff; Settlement by the Cliff
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English
From the Town Near a Cliff; Diminutive of Clifton
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English
English : habitational name from Gaultney in Rushton, Northamptonshire, probably so named from Old Norse gǫltr ‘boar’ + Old Danish klint ‘steep cliff or bank’ with the later addition of Middle English heye ‘enclosure’. The surname is not found in the U.K. In the U.S., it is concentrated in GA. Compare Gautney.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, so named from an unattested Old English element henge ‘steep’ + Old English clif ‘cliff’.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : patronymic from a nickname for a lively person, from Old French hirond, arond ‘swallow’ (the bird).English (of Norman origin) : patronymic from a nickname for a discontented individual, from a diminutive of Old French hire ‘complaint’ (of unknown origin).
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Purity
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From the Farm Near the Cliff
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Blend of Marie or Mary and Lyn
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Greek
Crown; wreath.
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Peacock
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Starry hair
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Sun
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Entertainment, Faithful
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a.
Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.
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The fork of the legs; the crotch.
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Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.
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White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
v. t.
To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
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A hill; a cliff.
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The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
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A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
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A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.
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A cliff.
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A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
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A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.
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A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.
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Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
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Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
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A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.
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A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.
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One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.
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Broken; fissured.
v. i.
To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.