scarp

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
2. noun A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.
3. noun Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape.
4. verb to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment

   to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock

Similar words

escarp escarpment protective embankment obsequent scarpment excarpment anti-scarp scarplet scar scarpland

Often followed by

of and is in on face at to slope

Word family

scarped scarps