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Definition of Scarped
1. scarp [v] - See also: scarp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarped
Literary usage of Scarped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"As we rode along I noticed on the left, just above Siloam and also further up,
tracts of scarped rock along the hill-side, as if once belonging to an ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"boldly scarped hill stands the fort, which was built in 1780 by Achal Singh.
The palace of the chief is in the fort. Post-office, dispensary, and hospital. ..."
3. Six Months in America by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1833)
"... whose banks are covered with the forest trees of America, instead of being
formally scarped for the culture of vines, trimmed like gooseberry bushes. ..."
4. The Archaeology of Rome by John Henry Parker (1874)
"is built against a scarped cliff. This is c "Rome and the Campagna," by a lofty
hill on a level with the Lateran, Robert Burn. ..."
5. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"off, on its scarped rock, in that " gorge of two windy valleys; " the pale-fading
spectre now of a Chateau: this huge World- riot, and France, and the World ..."
6. Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin by Laurence Binyon (1902)
"A massive rounded hill on the further shore of the Nile, which fills the foreground,
with scarped clift's descending to the water. ..."
7. A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus & Branchidæ by Charles Thomas Newton, Richard Popplewell Pullan (1863)
"scarped rock on the north. Niches. Discovery of stele on this site. Seated figure
of * Demeter. Statuette of Persephone. Lamps ; terracottas ; foundations. ..."
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