Dictionaries › English

scarp

Pronunciation: /skɑːp/

The English word “scarp” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  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.

verb

  1. to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment

Etymology

Apheretic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “scarp” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.