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ǁ Bergfall. World English Historical Dictionary

ǁ Bergfall. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. ǁ Bergfall [Ger. bergfall fall of a mountain.] The ruinous fall of a mountain peak or crag, an avalanche of stones.

1 1849.  Daily News, 12 March, 6/6. The freshness of the ground where the berg-fall took place some years since is well rendered.

2 1856.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., IV. V. xiv. § 5. 180. Terrific and fantastic forms of precipice; not altogether without danger, as has been fearfully demonstrated by many a ‘bergfall’ among the limestone groups of the Alps.

3 1862.  T. G. Bonney, in Peaks, Passes, & Glac., II. x. 202. It is the wildest scene of desolation I ever saw: the celebrated bergfall of the Diablerets cannot at all compare with it.

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