Definitions for escarpment

escarpment es·carp·ment

Spelling: [ih-skahrp-muh nt]
IPA: /ɪˈskɑrp mənt/

Escarpment is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1085 anagrams from letters in escarpment (aceemnprst).

Definitions for escarpment

noun

  1. Geology. a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust. Compare scarp (def 1).
  2. ground cut into an escarp around a fortification or defensive position.

Origin of escarpment

From the French word escarpement, dating back to 1795-1805. See escarp, -ment

Examples for escarpment

The plain terminates, where we ascended, in an escarpment of vesicular trap-rock, which supplies the fragments of the creek below.

A few hundred yards below the falls, and on the left bank of the river is an escarpment from which we obtained some specimens.

At length they crossed the escarpment of the hill, and stood upon the summit.

They came out upon the Niagara just north of the Queenston escarpment.

The Downs escarpment was set with gigantic slow-moving wind-wheels.

Probably the escarpment that extends from Austin to Eagle Pass.

A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall.

The Dunkirk shale loams are found upon the hill or escarpment.

Silently he went on climbing the escarpment, digging into the rough rock.

This presented an escarpment on the river of about nine hundred yards in length, and is familiarly known as Scott's bluffs.

Word Value for escarpment
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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