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English
Etymology
Aphetic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skɑːp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /skɑɹp/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Noun
scarp (plural scarps)
- The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
- (geology) A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
- Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
- (heraldry) Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape.
- 1673, Matthew Carter, Honor Redivivus: Or, The Analysis of Honor and Armory, page 211:
- [...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 38:
- He beareth Argent, a Scarp, Azure.
Derived terms
Translations
cliff caused by erosion
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Verb
scarp (third-person singular simple present scarps, present participle scarping, simple past and past participle scarped)
- (earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
- to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC:
- From scarped cliff and quarried stone
- 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 38:
- For thou, O Spring! canst renovate / All that high God did first create. / […] / Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain, / Cleanse the torrent at the fountain, […]
Anagrams
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz.
Adjective
scarp
Inflection
Declension of scarp (a-stem)
| strong declension | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | ||
| nominative | scarp | scarp | scarp | scarpa, scarpe | ||
| accusative | scarpan, scarpen | scarpa | scarp | scarpa, scarpe | ||
| genitive | scarpes | scarpero | scarpes | scarpero | ||
| dative | scarpin, scarpemo | scarpero | scarpin, scarpemo | scarpon | ||
| weak declension | ||||||
| case | masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | ||
| nominative | scarpo | scarpa | scarpa | scarpon | ||
| accusative | scarpon | scarpon | scarpa | scarpon | ||
| genitive | scarpin | scarpon | scarpin | scarpono | ||
| dative | scarpin | scarpon | scarpin | scarpon | ||
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: scharp
References
- “skarp”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Romanian
Noun
scarp m (plural scarpi)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | scarp | scarpul | scarpi | scarpii | |
| genitive-dative | scarp | scarpului | scarpi | scarpilor | |
| vocative | scarpule | scarpilor | |||