Definitions for escarps

escarps es·carp

Spelling: [ih-skahrp]
IPA: /ɪˈskɑrp/

Escarps is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 262 anagrams from letters in escarps (aceprss).

Definitions for escarps

noun

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

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of escarps

1680-90; French, Middle French escarpe Italian scarpa Germanic; see scarp

Examples for escarps

In fortification, a projecting turret on the top of the escarp, whence a sentry may observe the outside of the rampart.

A precipitous steep; as either the escarp or counterscarp of a fort: but a bank or the face of a hill may also be scarped.

The line of the escarp is called the magistral line since it regulates the trace.

The ladders were thrown down, but they were quickly again raised against the escarp.

By making the crest of the parapet quite independent of the escarp line he obtained great freedom of direction for his fire.

There is no escarp, the natural slope of the rampart being carried down to the bottom of the ditch.

They have no ditches, but an escarp of ten feet in the lava.

The escarp of Lunette 53 was successfully breached by this method.

Its principal use is to secure the escarp as long as possible.

Also, a flat coping stone placed at the top of the revêtement of the escarp, to protect the masonry from the weather.

Word Value for escarps
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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