A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.

plural of escarpment

simple past tense and past participle of escarp

present participle of escarp

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of escarp

The side of the ditch next to the parapet in a fortification; the scarp.

(transitive) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scarp.

An escarpment in the Pensacola Mountains, Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica