Scarping

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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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