escarp
Americannoun
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Fortification. the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart.
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any similar steep slope.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of escarp
1680–90; < French, Middle French escarpe < Italian scarpa < Germanic; see scarp
Example Sentences
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Other means, however, are generally preferred in modern times, except when a rapid fall in the ground renders it difficult to cover the main escarp by ordinary resources.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
They have no ditches, but an escarp of ten feet in the lava.
From The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Demetrius Charles Boulger
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
The ditch has escarp and counterscarp, and is defended by counterscarp galleries at the angles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
The eastern front has an escarp fourteen feet high cut in the lava, and well flanked by the caponnière defending the entrances, mounting four guns.
From The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Demetrius Charles Boulger
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