scarp

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English

Etymology

Aphetic form of escarp. Doublet of sharp.

Pronunciation

Noun

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scarp (plural scarps)

  1. The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
  2. (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).
  3. (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

Verb

scarp (third-person singular simple present scarps, present participle scarping, simple past and past participle scarped)

  1. (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, , “(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

  1. sharp

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

References

  • “skarp”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Romanian

Noun

scarp m (plural scarpi)

  1. obsolete form of scarpă

Declension

Declension of scarp
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative scarp scarpul scarpi scarpii
genitive-dative scarp scarpului scarpi scarpilor
vocative scarpule scarpilor

References

  • scarp in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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