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What is a landslip?

What is a landslip? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The sliding of a mass of land down a slope or cliff; a landslide
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Work on the foundations of a new cancer wing at St James's Hospital, in Leeds, triggered a landslip which in turn severed electrical cables and damaged a gas main.
He was killed by a landslip in the pit, when he was barely forty years old.
Although it looks like a stream gorge, it was formed by a landslip and has its own microclimate.
On July 9, 1958, a landslip from the land into the ocean caused a wave to wash 524m high along fjord-like Lituay Bay, Alaska.
Fourthly, I am well aware of the serious problems of the road itself, the landslip and the adverse camber for example, but the residents didn't ask me for a new road.
Meanwhile, it is expected to take between three and four weeks to clear a mile and a half of track affected by a landslip in Heck, 11 miles north of Doncaster.

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