1) Any similar steep slope 2) Bastion part 3) Escarpment 4) Fortification 5) French word used in English 6) Inner wall of a trench 7) Moat wall 8) Munition 9) Part of a rampart 10) Protective embankment 11) Protective slope 12) Rugged slope 13) Scarp 14) Steep artificial slope 15) Steep descent 16) Steep embankment
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• (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap. • (n.) The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.
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Es·carp' noun [ French
escarpe (cf. Spanish
escarpa , Italian
scarpa ), from
escarper to cut steep, cut to a slope, probably of German origin: confer German
scharf sharp,, English
sharp , or perhaps
scrape .]
(Fort.) The side of the ditch next...
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Es·carp' transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Escarped ;
present participle & verbal noun Escarping .]
(Mil.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.
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the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart. See diag. under · any similar steep slope.
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