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scarp

  [skahrp]
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–noun
1. a line of cliffs formed by the faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust; an escarpment.
2. Fortification. an escarp.
–verb (used with object)
3. to form or cut into a steep slope.
Origin:
1580–90; < It scarpa a slope. See escarp
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scarp   (skärp)   
n.  An escarpment.
tr.v.   scarped, scarp·ing, scarps
To cut or make into an escarpment.

[Italian scarpa, slope, perhaps of Germanic origin; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Scarp

Scarp\, n. [OF. escharpe. See 2d Scarf.] (Her.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.

Scarp

Scarp\, n. [Aphetic form of Escarp.]

1. (Fort.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

2. A steep descent or declivity.

Scarp

Scarp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarping.] 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.
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scarp 
"steep slope," 1589, from It. scarpa "slope," probably from a Gmc. source (cf. M.H.G. schroffe "sharp rock, crag," O.E. scræf "cave, grave"). Fr. escarpe is from It.
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scarp   (skärp)  Pronunciation Key 
A continuous line of cliffs produced by vertical movement of the Earth's crust along a fault or by erosion. The term is often used interchangeably with escarpment but is more accurately associated with cliffs produced by faulting rather than those produced by erosional processes.
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