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# scarp

«scarp» in Mova's school dictionary: **A steep slope or cliff, often a long line of steep ground…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a scarp, scarps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (geography) A steep slope or cliff, often a long line of steep ground where land has been worn away or moved along a fault. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scarp/#m1)

2) (castles) The inner steep wall of a ditch in a fortress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scarp/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, a scarp (or escarpment) is the steep side of a ridge; the gentle side is the dip slope. Earthquakes can make fault scarps. In history, castle scarps made attacks hard. Phrases: a steep scarp, scarp slope, fault scarp.

### examples

- The path climbs a steep scarp to the top of the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scarp/#x1)
- In geography we drew the scarp slope and the dip slope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scarp/#x2)
- The earthquake left a scarp across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scarp/#x3)
- Soldiers could not climb the castle's scarp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scarp/#x4)
- From the top of the scarp we could see the whole valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scarp/#x5)
- Chalk hills often have a scarp on one side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scarp/#x6)

### note

Short for "escarpment". Countable: a scarp, scarps. Do not confuse with "scrap" or "scarf".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scarp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scarp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.