Definition of "rockface" [rockface]

• Alternative form of rock face. (noun)

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• "They've been preserved by the collapse of the rockface above the cave, closing off what had been the prime canvas for the prehistoric artists and the cave bears and other animals that either preceded or succeeded them."
• "They encounter a street that rises in front of them like a sheer rockface and, bracing a foot against it first, like Fred Astaire dancing around the walls in Royal Wedding, they proceed to walk straight upwards."
• "'He said to my nephew in hospital that he was looking between some trees and there was a cliff face, and big lizards came out of the rockface of the cliff and they chased him and he ran into the forest and cut himself."