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Scarp

//skɑːp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
  2. 2
    a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion wordnet
  5. 5
    Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape. alt-of, obsolete

    "[...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure."

Verb
  1. 1
    to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment transitive

    "to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Apheretic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp.

Etymology 2

Apheretic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp.

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