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(geography) The sun-facing side of a mountain.
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(US) In the southwestern US, a slope, specifically part of a piedmont slope made of rocky detritus.
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A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
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A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine.
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A gully, gulch, or ravine.
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A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
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A towel for use at the beach, typically larger than a normal household towel so that a person can use it to lie on the sand.
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Alternative form of beachhead [(military) An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material]
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(India, Bangladesh) a lake-like wetland with static water in a flood plain
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(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
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(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
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A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
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(Southern England, Vancouver) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
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(historical, South Wales) The right to quarry limestone from the cliffs of the Gower, or the payment charged for this right.
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(chiefly Britain) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
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A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.
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(Northumbria) a valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet
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An unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material.
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The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
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A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
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A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
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(Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
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(military) A gentle incline in front of a fortification.
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A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.
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(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
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(chiefly Britain) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.
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Alternative form of grike [(chiefly Britain) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.]
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A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
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A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
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(hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf [A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.]
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The unplowed boundary of a field.
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(geography) The highest cliff of a glacial cirque.
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The act of watching a fox hunt from a hill top rather than taking part in the chase, or of following the hunt by moving from one high vantage point to another.
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(geomorphology) Part of a river or channel where there is a sharp change in slope, such as a waterfall or lake.
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(obsolete) A pit, or ditch.
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Alternative spelling of lake effect
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Obsolete form of ledge. [A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.]
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A wide estuary formed as a lagoon at the mouth of one or more rivers, where flow is constrained by a bar of sediments (created by either the current of a sea or a sediment-saturated river), especially in the Black Sea region.
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(dialectal or literary) A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere.
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(geomorphology) A bar that forms in the middle of an estuary or of a channel in a river delta.
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(UK, chiefly nautical and navy) A large body of water including the sea or the ocean.
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A very deeply eroded portion of a basin or valley.
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A ravine or valley in Latin America.
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(geology) A terrace of gravel etc. marking the margin of an ancient sea.
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(usually in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.
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a rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
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A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
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(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
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The topmost edge along a mountain ridge.
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A relatively flat stretch of rock, as at a coastline.
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A bank of silt on the bed of a dried-up river
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A ridge or bank of sand; sandbank.
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(geography) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
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(now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
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Alternative form of slang (“long narrow piece of land”) [Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.]
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The lee face of a sand dune where the surface is at the angle of repose for sand (33–35°).
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Any sloping piece of land, such as a hillside
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A deep cavity formed by the action of subterranean streams common in some limestone districts of Ireland.
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(meteorology) A standardized shelter that holds meteorological instruments and protects them from directly being influenced by wind, sunlight and rain.
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A coastal landform consisting of a near-flat erosion surface typical of the Norwegian coast.
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(South Africa) beachcomber
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A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
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A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
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(UK) A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.
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(US, chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds.
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A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
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(anatomy, botany) A depression, channel or groove.
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(Southern Africa) A shallow wetlands or minor lake, generally a seasonal one, or the lowland where such a wetlands appears seasonally.
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Alternative form of vlei [(Southern Africa) A shallow wetlands or minor lake, generally a seasonal one, or the lowland where such a wetlands appears seasonally.]
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Alternative form of vlei [(Southern Africa) A shallow wetlands or minor lake, generally a seasonal one, or the lowland where such a wetlands appears seasonally.]
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(obsolete, poetic) The sea, the ocean.
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