Scarp

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scarp \Scarp\, v. 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 rock.
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           From scarped cliff and quarried stone.   --Tennyson.
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           Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain.   --Emerson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scarp \Scarp\, n. [OF. escharpe. See 2d {Scarf}.] (Her.)
     A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only
     half as broad as the latter.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scarp \Scarp\, n. [Aphetic form of {Escarp}.]
     1. (Fort.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the
        escarp.
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     2. A steep descent or declivity.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Escarp \Es*carp"\, n. [F. escarpe (cf. Sp. escarpa, It. scarpa),
     fr. escarper to cut steep, cut to a slope, prob. of German
     origin: cf. G. scharf sharp,, E. sharp, or perh. scrape.]
     (Fort.)
     The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as {scarp},
     and opposed to {counterscarp}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scarp
       n 1: a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or
            ridge; usually formed by erosion [syn: {escarpment}]
       2: a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification [syn: {escarpment},
           {escarp}, {protective embankment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "scarp":
     abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette,
     barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan,
     bastion, battlement, bevel, bezel, bluff, breastwork, bulwark,
     casemate, cheval-de-frise, chute, circumvallation, cliff,
     contravallation, counterscarp, crag, curtain, demibastion, dike,
     drawbridge, earthwork, easy slope, enclosure, entanglement, escarp,
     escarpment, face, fence, fieldwork, fleam, fortalice,
     fortification, gentle slope, glacis, grade, gradient,
     hanging gardens, helicline, hillside, inclination, incline,
     inclined plane, launching ramp, loophole, lunette, machicolation,
     mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, palisades, parados,
     parapet, pitch, portcullis, postern gate, precipice, ramp, rampart,
     ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scar, sconce, shelving beach,
     side, slope, steep, steep slope, stiff climb, stockade, talus,
     tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, work