Scarp /(?)/

1. A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter. (Her.)

1. The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp. (Fort.)
2. A steep descent or declivity.

imp. & p. p. Scarped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarping

1. To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.

   From scarped cliff and quarried stone.

   Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain.