'Escarpment' definitions:
Definition of 'escarpment'
From: WordNet
noun
A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion [syn: escarpment, scarp]
noun
A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification [syn: escarpment, escarp, scarp, protective embankment]
Definition of 'Escarpment'
From: GCIDE
- Escarpment \Es*carp"ment\, n. [Cf. F. escarpement.] A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'escarpment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- bluff,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- cliff,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- crag,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- face,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- glacis,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- palisades,
- parados,
- parapet,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- precipice,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- sally port,
- scar,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- steep,
- stockade,
- tenaille,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- wall,
- work