cliff faces

Noun

cliff face (plural cliff faces)

1. The very steep, vertical, or overhanging section of rock, earth, or ice slope usually free of any vegetation or loose material.
   • Using the countless tons of rock from the cliff-face, supplemented by much more from inland, they threw out a huge breakwater, 2,000 ft. long and 80 ft. high, roughly at right angles to the quay, so forming an almost completely sheltered corner. Fifty years later, this massive mole is still...1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632