Scarp is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCARP in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make into a steep slope
• cut or erode (a slope or hillside) so that it becomes steep, perpendicular, or precipitous
• provide (a ditch in a fortification) with a steep scarp and counterscarp.
• To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
• wear or cut so as to form a steep slope
NOUN:
• a very steep bank or slope; an escarpment
• the inner wall of a ditch in a fortification.
• A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
• The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
• A steep descent or declivity.
• a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion
• a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
• steep slope
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cut or make into a steep slope

Words related to SCARP

scarped12 scarping13 scarpings14 scarps10

Words that contain SCARP

escarp10 scarpa10 scarph13 scarps10 escarps11 scarpas11 scarped12 scarper11 scarphs14 escarped13 scarpaed13 scarpers12 scarphed16 scarping13 escarping14 scarpaing14 scarpered14 scarpetti13 scarpetto13 scarphing17 scarpines13 scarpings14 escarpment16 mascarpone16 scarpering15 escarpments17 mascarpones17 counterscarp18 counterscarps19

How to use SCARP in a sentence

• The out-work which overhangs the sheer northern scarp performed the same function as the famous Tarpeian Rock of old Rome.
• Then I found a cooler air blowing on the top of my prostrate skull, and I judged that we were approaching the scarp of a ridge.
• His hand now beckoned me forward, and in a few seconds I was beside him and was lifting my eyes over the edge of the scarp.
• By midday we had mounted to the crest of a long scarp which fell away in a narrow and broken promontory towards the plains.
• The curved shot finds one application in the opening of breaches in scarp walls, despite the existence of a covering of great thickness.
• Jim Wade, Sam Scarp, and Mark Paul, three Indians, rushed in after Paul, who turned and struck Wade a terrific blow on the neck, knocking him out.
• When the ditch is gained, shelter is sought in a dead angle till the means are prepared for mounting the scarp, and storming the work.
• But when the assaulting column has gained the top of the scarp, the bayonet forms the most effective means of resistance.
• A portion of the scarp was provided with palisades some ten feet high.
• But a sailor called Matthews got some friends to lower him down the face of the scarp.
• Damp gusts beat upward over the blistering scarp of the cliff.
• The Cotswold shepherd looks downward on their folds, and marks the gleaming white of the occasional chalk pit which breaks the surface of their scarp.
• The allies having laid bridges over the scarp, the duke of Marlborough with his division passed the river and encamped at Vitri.
• Vincente, where the glacis was mined, the ditch deep, and the scarp thirty feet high.
• The sight of the heather gave me an idea, and I walked back to where, at the end of the chestnut wood, a noble clump of it grew, under a scarp of rock where the pines broke off.

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