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CLIFFORD CLIFF
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English
English : habitational name, possibly from Lipwood Hall or Farm in Northumberland, named from Old English hlēp ‘steep slope’ + wudu ‘wood’, or from a lost or unidentified place. The surname does not occur in current English records, although a bearer of the name Lepford is recorded in the census of 1881.
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Ford Near the Cliff; Name of a Place; Near a Slope
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English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : variant of Crawford.
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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 for someone from Giffords Hall in Suffolk. It was originally named in Old English as Gyddingford ‘ford associated with Gydda’. Compare Giddens.English : possibly in some cases a variant spelling of Giffard, which may derive from an Old German personal name, Gifard, or from a Middle English nickname from Old French giffard ‘chubby-cheeked’, ‘bloated’ (a pejorative of giffel ‘jaw’, ‘cheek’, of Germanic origin).
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From the Linden Tree Ford
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English : habitational name, perhaps from Croford in Somerset. However, the surname is associated more with Suffolk than Somerset, and a different source, now lost, may be involved.
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Ford Near the Cliff; Cliff-side Ford
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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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Cliff-side ford.
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English : variant spelling of Lyford.
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Chubby Cheeks; Gift of Bravery; Brave Giver; Puffy-faced
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English
English : habitational name from Great and Little Linford in Buckinghamshire or Lynford in Norfolk. The former may have Old English hlyn ‘maple’ as its first element; the latter is more likely to contain līn ‘flax’. The second element in each case is Old English ford ‘ford’.
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Ford near a slope. From an Old English surname and place name, used commonly as a first name...
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Gift-Brave
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Near the Cliff
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River ford near a cliff.
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Brave.
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Chubby cheeks.
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Settlement by the Cliff; Ford Near the Cliff; Form of Clifford
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A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.
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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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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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White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
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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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A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.
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A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.
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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 steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
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A hill; a cliff.
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A cliff.
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The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
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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Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.
v. i.
To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
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Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
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Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.
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Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
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See Clef.