escarpment
escarpment is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- bed
- board
- coat
- course
- cover
- covering
- cut
- dess
- eschar
- film
- flag
- flagstone
- flake
- floor
- foil
- integument
- lamella
- lamina
- layer
- leaf
- membrane
- nest
- onion
- pare
- peel
- pellicle
- plank
- plate
- platter
- rasher
- scale
- scaliness
- shave
- shaving
- sheet
- shive
- slab
- slice
- stage
- story
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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