scarp

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /skɑːp/    美 /skɑɹp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
  2. 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)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).
  3. Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape. alt-of,obsolete
    — [...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure.
动词 v.
  1. to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment transitive
    — to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock

词形变化

scarps plural scarps present,singular,third-person scarping participle,present scarped participle,past scarped past

词汇关系

衍生词
anti-scarp backscarp counterscarp fault scarp scarpland scarplet

词源

词源 1
Apheretic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp.
词源 2
Apheretic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp.
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