precipice
used in The Hound of the Baskervilles

only 1 use

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Definition

a very steep cliff

or:

any dangerous situation

You have been walking for some months very near to the edge of a precipice.
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There are no more uses of "precipice" in The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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