Scarp
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
- 2 a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification wordnet
- 3 A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.
"2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text 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)."
- 4 a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion wordnet
- 5 Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape. alt-of, obsolete
"[...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure."
- 1 to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment transitive
"to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock"
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text 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)."
Etymology
Apheretic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp.