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Scarp   Listen
noun
Scarp  n.  (Her.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scarp" Quotes from Famous Books



... being precipitous on three faces, while it is cut off to landward by a deep dry ditch, about thirty feet wide, across which a movable drawbridge is let down, and this compartment of the defences is all very regular, with scarp and counterscarp, covered—way and glacis. The brass guns mounted on the castle were numerous and beautiful, but every thing was in miserable disrepair; several of the guns, for instance, had settled down bodily on the platform, having fallen through the crushed rotten carriages. I found ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... lip of a small and perfect lake of poignant blue, that fills the cup made by the meeting of a ring of massive heights. At the end of the lake, miles away, but, thanks to the queerness of mountain perspective, looking close enough to touch, rises the scarp of Mount Victoria, capped with a vast glacier that seemed to shine with curious inner lambency under the clear light of the grey day. There is a touch of the theatre in that view from the windows or the broad lawns of the Chateau, for the mountain and glacier is a huge back-drop seen ...
— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton



Words linked to "Scarp" :   side, munition, protective embankment, escarp, slope, escarpment, incline



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