escarp

noun

1. Fortification. the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart.
2. any similar steep slope.

verb (used with object)

3. to make into an escarp; give a steep slope to; furnish with escarps.

noun

1. fortifications the inner side of the ditch separating besiegers and besiegedCompare counterscarp

verb

2. a rare word for scarp (def. 3)

n.

“steep slope,” 1680s, from French escarpe (16c.), from Italian scarpa (see scarp).