壁へき立りつ

noun

sheer cliff; cliff standing like a wall

Rare literary noun, almost always found in the four-character idiom 壁立千仞 (へきりつせんじん), meaning a cliff towering a thousand fathoms high. Not used in everyday speech.

See also: 壁立千仞

• 「壁へき立りつ千せん仞じん」という言こと葉ばは、切きり立たった崖がけを表あらわす。

  The phrase 壁立千仞 describes a sheer cliff.