A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
1. (Fort.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp. 2. A steep descent or declivity.
To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock. From scarped cliff and quarried stone. Tennyson. Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. Emerson....
