scarp

noun

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. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape.

   “[...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure.”

   “He beareth Argent, a Scarp, Azure.”

verb

1. (transitive)to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment

   “to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock”

   “From scarped cliff and quarried stone”

   “For thou, O Spring! canst renovate / All that high God did first create. / […] / Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain, / Cleanse the torrent at the fountain, […]”