Category:Scarp

Scarp, n. Etym: [of. escharpe. See 2d scarf.] (her.)

Defn: a band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half As broad as the latter.

Scarp Scarp, n. Etym: [aphetic form of escarp.]

1. (fort.)

Defn: the slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

2. A steep descent or declivity.

Scarp Scarp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarping.]

Defn: to cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the Face of a ditch or a rock. From scarped cliff and quarried stone. Tennyson. Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. Emerson.