Escarp Definition

ĭ-skärp
escarps
noun
A steep slope or cliff; an escarpment.
American Heritage

Scarp.

Webster's New World
The inner wall of a ditch or trench dug around a fortification.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
To cause to form a steep slope.
American Heritage
To furnish with an escarp.
American Heritage

To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scarp.

Wiktionary

Origin of Escarp

  • French escarpe from Italian scarpa scarp

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French escarpe.

    From Wiktionary

Escarp Sentence Examples

  • At Erh-Lung on the 20th of November three mines were exploded, which half filled the ditch, and the Japanese later on sapped across to the escarp over the debris.

  • They held most of the ditch of Chi-Kuan Fort and were cutting down the escarp, and two parallels had been made only 30 yds.

  • The escarp of Chi-Kuan was blown up, and at the cost of 800 men, General Sameyeda (11th division), personally leading his stormers, captured the great fort on the 19th of December.

  • The escarp of Ehr-Lung was also blown up, and the ruins of the fort were stormed by the 9th division on the 28th of December, though a mere handful of the defenders prolonged the fighting for eight hours and the assailants lost loon men.

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