cliff fall

English

Noun

cliff fall (plural cliff falls)

1. A (partial) collapse of a cliff, usually due to erosion.
   • 1959 March, “Letters to the Editor: The closure of redundant main lines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:

     SIR,—Hardly a winter passes without the Exeter-Plymouth line suffering either from cliff falls and high tides at Dawlish, or from extensive flooding of the Plym estuary.