scarp
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)p
Etymology [edit]
Aphetic form of escarp.
Noun [edit]
Wikipedia 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
Verb [edit]
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
- From scarped cliff and quarried stone. — Tennyson.
- Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. — Emerson.
