3 entries under this word

Scarp

Scärp, n.

noun

n. [See ESCARP.] 1. A perpendicular, or nearly perpendicular, slope. 2. (Fort.) The interior slope of the ditch nearest the parapet. [See Illust. of Abatis.]

Scärp, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SCARPED (skärpt); p. pr. & vb. n. SCARPING.] To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch, a rock, or the like. “From scarped cliff and quarried stone.” Tennyson.

Scärp, n.

noun

n. [O. Fr. escharpe. See SCARF.] (Her.) The scarf which military commanders wear for ornament, represented in an escutcheon by a band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.