scarp

Etymology
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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.
 * 3) * 2014,, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
 * "en"

- 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).



Translations

 * Bulgarian: скарп
 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: стръмен склон
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Flueh
 * Hungarian: szakadásfal
 * Irish: scairp
 * Polish:

Verb

 * 1)  to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment