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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The main front is broken back to flank the faces of the bastion from casemates behind the escarp, as well as from the parapet.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
A precipitous steep; as either the escarp or counterscarp of a fort: but a bank or the face of a hill may also be scarped.
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
In fortification, a projecting turret on the top of the escarp, whence a sentry may observe the outside of the rampart.
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
Projecting portions of a rampart, so disposed that the bottom of the escarp of each part of the whole rampart may be defended from the parapet of some other part.
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
The line of the escarp is called the magistral line since it regulates the trace.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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