Usually means: Steep slope formed by erosion.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word scarp:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarp: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scarp: Merriam-Webster
  3. scarp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scarp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scarp: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scarp: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scarp, scarp: Wordnik
  8. scarp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scarp: Wiktionary
  10. scarp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scarp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scarp: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scarp: Dictionary.com
  14. scarp: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Scarp (fortification), Scarp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scarp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scarp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scarp: Rhymezone
  19. Scarp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scarp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scarp: FreeDictionary.org
  22. scarp: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. scarp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scarp: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SCARP: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. scarp: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scarp: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scarp: Castle Terms
  2. SCARP: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarp: Nine Planets Glossary
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scarp: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scarp: BEACH-NET! (fishing)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scarp: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See scarped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
noun:  (geology) A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.
verb:  (earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
noun:  (heraldry) Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape.

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