SCARP

scarp

Noun

  1. the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet
  2. a cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion; the steeper side of an escarpment

Verb

  1. 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.


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