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Webster 1913 Edition
Scarp
Scarp
,Noun.
[OF.
escharpe
. See 2d Scarf
.] (Her.)
A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
1.
(Fort.)
The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
2.
A steep descent or declivity.
Scarp
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Scarped
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scarping
.] To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so;
as, to
. scarp
the face of a ditch or a rockFrom
scarped
cliff and quarried stone. Tennyson.
Sweep ruins from the
scarped
mountain. Emerson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Scarp
SC'ARP
, n.In fortification, the interior talus or slope of the ditch next the place, at the foot of the rampart.
SC'ARP
,Noun.
Definition 2024
scarp
scarp
English
Noun
scarp (plural scarps)
- the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet
- (geology) a cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion; the steeper side of an escarpment
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
- Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
Verb
scarp (third-person singular simple present scarps, present participle scarping, simple past and past participle scarped)
- (earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
- to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock
- Tennyson
- From scarped cliff and quarried stone
- Emerson
- Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain