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Scarp   /skɑrp/   Listen
noun
Scarp  n.  (Her.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.


Scarp  n.  
1.
(Fort.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
2.
A steep descent or declivity.


verb
Scarp  v. t.  (past & past part. scarped; pres. part. scarping)  To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock. "From scarped cliff and quarried stone." "Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain."





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"Scarp" Quotes from Famous Books



... thread their way through the county. It is impossible to escape them. The Cotswold shepherd looks downward on their folds, and marks the gleaming white of the occasional chalk pit which breaks the surface of their scarp. ...
— Stonehenge - Today and Yesterday • Frank Stevens
... dug for himself in the drifted snow under a huge scarp of ice a hundred yards from the igloo cabin lay Wapi. His bed was red with the stain of blood, and a trail of blood led from the cabin to the place where he had hidden himself. Not many hours ago, when by God's sun it should have been day, he had turned at last on a teasing, ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
... follow the road that climbs inland towards Tregarrick, the two tall hills to right and left of the coombe diverge to make room for a third, set like a wedge in the throat of the vale. Here the road branches into two, with a sign-post at the angle; and between the sign-post and the grey scarp of the hill there lies an acre of waste ground that the streams have turned into a marsh. This is Loose-heels. Long before I learnt the name's meaning, in the days when I trod the lower road with slate and satchel, this spot was a favourite of mine—but chiefly in July, when the monkey-flower ...
— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... beheld the enemy; and the banished Cavaliers felt an emotion of national pride when they saw a brigade of their countrymen, outnumbered by foes and abandoned by friends, drive before it in headlong rout the finest infantry of Spain, and force a passage into a counter-scarp which had just been pronounced impregnable by the ablest of the ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various
... distance, now—there was a monstrous scarp of mountains, colored in glaring and unnatural tints. Immediately about there was raw rock. But it was peculiarly smooth, as if sand grains had rubbed over it for uncountable aeons and carefully worn away every trace of unevenness. ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins


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