scarp
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Is scarp a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (geology) A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.Examples: "2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text 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)."
2. (heraldry) Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape.Examples: "[...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure."; "He beareth Argent, a Scarp, Azure."alt-ofobsolete
verb (English)
1. (earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpmentExamples: "to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock"; "From scarped cliff and quarried stone"; "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, […]"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary