About The Word Escarpment
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Escarpment
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What's The Definition Of Escarpment?
[n] a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
[n] a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion Synonyms | Synonyms for Escarpment: escarp | protective embankment | scarp | scarp Related Terms | Find terms related to Escarpment: abatis | advanced work | balistraria | bank | banquette | barbed-wire entanglement | barbican | barricade | barrier | bartizan | bastion | battlement | bluff | breastwork | bulwark | casemate | cheval-de-frise | circumvallation | cliff | contravallation | counterscarp | crag | curtain | demibastion | dike | drawbridge | earthwork | enclosure | entanglement | escarp | face | fence | fieldwork | fortalice | fortification | glacis | loophole | lunette | machicolation | mantelet | merlon | mound | outwork | palisade | palisades | parados | parapet | portcullis | postern gate | precipice | rampart | ravelin | redan | redoubt | sally port | scar | scarp | sconce | steep | stockade | tenaille | vallation | vallum | wall | work See Also | fortification | incline | munition | side | slope Escarpment In Webster's Dictionary \Es*carp"ment\, n. [Cf. F. escarpement.]
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge;
ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to
prevent hostile approach. See {Scarp}.
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