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scarp

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scarp/skɑːp/

▶noun a very steep bank or slope; an escarpment.

■ the inner wall of a ditch in a fortification.

▶verb cut or erode so as to form a scarp.

– origin C16 (with ref. to fortification): from Ital. scarpa.

'scarp' also found in these Oxford entries:

dip slope - escarpment - scarp slope

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