Coun'ter-scârp, n.

n. [counter and scarp, q. v.; Fr. contrescarpe, It. contrascarpa, Sp. contrascarpa.] (Fort.) The exterior slope of the ditch. ☞ It often signifies the whole covered way, with its parapet and glacis; as when it is said, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp. [See Illust. of Abatis.]