'Scarp' definitions:
Definition of 'scarp'
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 'Scarp'
From: GCIDE
- Scarp \Scarp\, n. [OF. escharpe. See 2d Scarf.] (Her.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scarp'
From: GCIDE
- Scarp \Scarp\, n. [Aphetic form of Escarp.]
- 1. (Fort.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A steep descent or declivity. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scarp'
From: GCIDE
- Scarp \Scarp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarping.] To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock. [1913 Webster]
- From scarped cliff and quarried stone. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'scarp'
From: GCIDE
- Escarp \Es*carp"\, n. [F. escarpe (cf. Sp. escarpa, It. scarpa), fr. escarper to cut steep, cut to a slope, prob. of German origin: cf. G. scharf sharp,, E. sharp, or perh. scrape.] (Fort.) The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scarp'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- bevel,
- bezel,
- bluff,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- chute,
- circumvallation,
- cliff,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- crag,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- easy slope,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- face,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fleam,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- gentle slope,
- glacis,
- grade,
- gradient,
- hanging gardens,
- helicline,
- hillside,
- inclination,
- incline,
- inclined plane,
- launching ramp,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- palisades,
- parados,
- parapet,
- pitch,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- precipice,
- ramp,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- sally port,
- scar,
- sconce,
- shelving beach,
- side,
- slope,
- steep,
- steep slope,
- stiff climb,
- stockade,
- talus,
- tenaille,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- wall,
- work