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Entry 4 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Scarp

/skärp/ · IPA /skɑɹp/
01 n. A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
  1. 1.
    A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.(Her.)
02 n. The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
  1. 1.
    The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.(Fort.)
  2. 2.
    A steep descent or declivity.
03 v. t. To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
imp. & p. p. Scarped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarping
  1. 1.
    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.