scarp
English edit
Etymology edit
Aphetic form of escarp. Doublet of sharp.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skɑːp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /skɑɹp/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Noun edit
scarp (plural scarps)
- The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
- (geology) A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
- 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).
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
- (heraldry) Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape
- 1673, Matthew Carter, Honor Redivivus: Or, The Analysis of Honor and Armory, page 211:
- [...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 38:
- He beareth Argent, a Scarp, Azure.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
cliff caused by erosion
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Verb edit
scarp (third-person singular simple present scarps, present participle scarping, simple past and past participle scarped)
- (earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
- to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):
- From scarped cliff and quarried stone
- 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 38:
- For thou, O Spring! canst renovate / All that high God did first create. / […] / Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain, / Cleanse the torrent at the fountain, […]
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Romanian edit
Noun edit
scarp m (plural scarpi)
Declension edit
Declension of scarp