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Definition of Scarping
1. scarp [v] - See also: scarp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarping
Literary usage of Scarping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1904)
"Are we therefore to assume that they contemplated a certain amount of scarping
of the rock 2 to attain their ends? I was at first inclined to think so, ..."
2. Transactions and Proceedings by Perthshire Society of Natural Science (1908)
"Are we therefore to assume that they contemplated a certain amount of scarping
of the rock to attain their ends? I was at first inclined to think they had ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"Accordingly, some have proposed scarping the chalk range of hills, or forming an
... A long line, such as would be afforded by scarping the hills, ..."
4. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1908)
"mountain was not only precipitous by nature but that also it has been rendered
entirely unassailable by scarping." From the lower end of this steep ..."
5. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1904)
"Are we therefore to assume that they contemplated a certain amount of scarping
of the rock 2 to attain their ends? I was at first inclined to think so, ..."
6. Transactions and Proceedings by Perthshire Society of Natural Science (1908)
"Are we therefore to assume that they contemplated a certain amount of scarping
of the rock to attain their ends? I was at first inclined to think they had ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"Accordingly, some have proposed scarping the chalk range of hills, or forming an
... A long line, such as would be afforded by scarping the hills, ..."
8. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1908)
"mountain was not only precipitous by nature but that also it has been rendered
entirely unassailable by scarping." From the lower end of this steep ..."