Scarp

Definitions

1. The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
2. A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.
3. Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape.
   alt-of, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).”

“[...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure.”

“He beareth Argent, a Scarp, Azure.”

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