Scarp
1Scarp — Géographie Pays  Royaume Uni Archipel Hébrides extérieures Locali …
2Scarp — may mean:* Scarp, Scotland, an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland * Scarp (fortification) with a counterscarp, the inner and outer sides of a ditch * SS 9 Scarp, the NATO reporting name for the R 36 ICBM * the steeper side of an escarpment… …
3Scarp — Scarp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scarped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scarping}.] To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock. [1913 Webster] From scarped cliff and quarried stone. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] Sweep ruins… …
4scarp — [skärp] n. [It scarpa, a scarp, slope < Goth * skrapa, akin to OE scræf, cave, hollow < IE * (s)kerb(h) , var. of base * (s)ker , to cut > SHEAR] 1. a steep slope; specif., an escarpment or cliff extending along the edge of a plateau,… …
5Scarp — Scarp, n. [Aphetic form of {Escarp}.] 1. (Fort.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp. [1913 Webster] 2. A steep descent or declivity. [1913 Webster] …
6Scarp — Scarp, n. [OF. escharpe. See 2d {Scarf}.] (Her.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter. [1913 Webster] …
7scarp — SCARP, scarpi, s.m. (înv.) Pantof de damă uşor, pantof de casă. – Din it. scarpa. Trimis de IoanSoleriu, 19.07.2004. Sursa: DEX 98 scarp s. m., pl. scarpi Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic …
8scarp — ► NOUN ▪ a very steep bank or slope; an escarpment. ► VERB ▪ cut or erode so as to form a scarp. ORIGIN Italian scarpa …
9scarp´er|er — scarp|er «SKAHR puhr», intransitive verb. British Slang. to run away; go away; leave in a hurry: »A raft of people got the wind up and scarpered for foreign climes (Punch). ╂[apparently < Italian scappare escape] –scarp´er|er, noun …
10scarp|er — «SKAHR puhr», intransitive verb. British Slang. to run away; go away; leave in a hurry: »A raft of people got the wind up and scarpered for foreign climes (Punch). ╂[apparently < Italian scappare escape] –scarp´er|er, noun …
