Landslip

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The sliding of a mass of land down a cliff or slope; a landslide.

    "This landslip appears to have been occasioned by the freezing of the springs in the chasms of the hill; the expansive force of the ice causing a separation at the base of the cliff beneath the hill, the ground began to move forward, and the lands of the farm, being pressed on by the descending mass, were torn from their original foundations."

  2. 2
    a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff wordnet

Etymology

From land + slip.

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