scarp
/skɑɹp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
Example Sentences
- "—I would throw out the earth upon this hand towards the town for the scarp,—and on that hand towards the campaign for the counterscarp.—Very right, Trim, quoth my uncle Toby:—And when I had sloped them to your mind,——an’ please your Honour, I would face the glacis, as the finest fortifications are done in Flanders, with sods,——and as your Honour knows they should be,—and I would make the walls and parapets with sods too."
- "2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C)."
- "[...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure."
- "He beareth Argent, a Scarp, Azure."
- "to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock"
- "From scarped cliff and quarried stone"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skɑɹp/
- British English: /skɑːp/