scarp
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)p
Noun
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 or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
- 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).
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
Translations
cliff caused by erosion
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Verb
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
- Tennyson
- From scarped cliff and quarried stone
- Emerson
- Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain
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