counterscarp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of counterscarp
1565–75; counter- + scarp ( def. ) (modeled on Italian contrascarpa ); replacing counterscarfe, with scarfe obsolete variant of scarp ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The steep declivity of the counterscarp was then fatally attacked, and after a time its perpendicular face was laid bare.
From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by Holley, George W.
The ditch has no escarp or counterscarp, and is flanked by counterscarp galleries at the salient.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
To facilitate sorties in great force he did away with a counterscarp wall, providing instead a long gentle slope from the bottom of the ditch to the crest of the glacis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
If not interfered with by the defenders the besieger can advance in this way until he reaches the counterscarp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
His mines will now be turned to a new purpose, viz. to breach the counterscarp and afterwards the escarp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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