scarp

An escarpment.

To cut or make into an escarpment.

Milit., to cut down (a slope), so as to render it impassable.

In fortification, the interior talus or slope of the ditch, next the place at the foot of the rampart; hence, any sharp, steep slope. See cut under parapet.

Same as escarpment, 2.

A shoulder-belt or scarf: the word is found only in the Middle English form sharpe, and in the heraldic use (def. 2): otherwise in the later form scarf. See scarf.

In heraldry, a diminutive of the bend sinister, having one half its breadth.

A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.

To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so.

The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.