escarp
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French escarpe, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz. Doublet of sharp.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]escarp (plural escarps)
Verb
[edit]escarp (third-person singular simple present escarps, present participle escarping, simple past and past participle escarped)
- (transitive) Obsolete spelling of scarp.
- 1728, Daniel Defoe, Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton:
- Our men, though quite expos'd, and though the Glacis was all escarp'd upon the live Rock, went on with an undaunted Courage
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[edit]References
[edit]- “escarp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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