Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scarp

Scarp , noun

[Old French escharpe. See 2d Scarf.]

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

Scarp , noun

[Aphetic form of Escarp.]

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

Scarp , transitive verb

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