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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1†n.
a clifflike bank, often wooded, at the edge of a river or lake.
Quotations
1744
When they got beyond the N.W. Bluff . . . the Current or Fresh suddenly turned against them. . . .
1842
Opposite Keswick Bluff, there is a large body of intervale on the right bank of the river. . . .
1963
Here, high on a bluff overlooking Georgian Bay, were found the bones of over 700 Hurons
2n.
a low, moundlike hill.
Quotations
1774
Canoe Hummock or Bluff.
1850
However, we advanced over the crest of the bluffs with rifles ready cocked, expecting every instant to hear the angry growl of bears.
3an.
See 1957 quote.
Quotations
1792
All the side of the lake passed has a stony shore and mostly covered with small asps with a few bluffs of pine.
1821
. . . the country we passed presented some beautiful points and bluffs of wood.
1862
[We camped] at a stagnant pool in the shelter of a bluff of poplar.
1957
On the prairies you don't have to be much more than a babe in arms to know that a bluff is a grove of trees and to understand that the village names of Oak Bluff in Manitoba and Poplar Bluff in Saskatchewan prove it beyond a doubt.
1959
The cabin still stood in the bluff above the pass.
3bn.
See quote.
Quotations
1960
The plains had been stripped so badly that few deer roamed in the tiny clumps of brush and bluff.