Meaning of ESCARPMENT
| Pronunciation: | | e'skârpmunt
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | escarp, protective embankment, scarp, scarp |
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| | See Also: | | fortification, incline, munition, side, slope | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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