Scarp (?), n. [OF. escharpe. See 2d Scarf.] Her.
A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
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Scarp, n. [Aphetic form of Escarp.]
1. Fort.
The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
2.
A steep descent or declivity.
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Scarp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scarping.]
To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone.
Tennyson.
Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain.
Emerson.
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