Definition of Bergfalls

1. bergfall [n] - See also: bergfall

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bergfalls

bergamots
bergamottin
bergander
berganders
bergapten
bergenia
bergenias
bergenite
bergere
bergeres
bergeret
bergerets
bergerette
bergerettes
bergfall
bergfalls (current term)
bergh
berghaan
berghaans
bergie
bergies
bergmaster
bergmasters
bergmeal
bergmehl
bergmehls
bergomask
bergomasks
bergs
bergschrund

Literary usage of Bergfalls

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General Readers by Henry Neville Hutchinson (1892)
"In Switzerland the most noted bergfalls are those from the Diablerets and the Rossberg. The former mountain is a long flattish ridge with several small ..."

2. Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man by Alfred Richard Sennett (1904)
"Terrible catastrophes wrought by mountain-slips or bergfalls, as they are here called, have occurred often, but never with greater frequency or on a more ..."

3. Die Schweiz, nebst den angrenzenden Theilen von Oberitalien, Savoyen und by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1869)
"St. lang in verschiedenen Windungen am Gebirge hin, stets auf den jetzt ganz fruchtbaren Trümmern eines bergfalls, der 1751 links vom ..."

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