The sliding down of a mass of land on a mountain or cliff side; land that 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 earthquake.
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 Landslipped, Landslippy 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.
