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n. A steep slope or long cliff that results from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.

n. A steep slope in front of a fortification.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. In fortification, ground cut away, nearly vertically, about a position in order to render it inaccessible to an enemy.

n. Hence The precipitous side of any hill or rock; the abrupt face of a high ridge of land; a cliff.

n. a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification

n. a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion

"Farther inland, every sandstone and limestone escarpment is the color of bone."

fortification    munition    side    slope    incline   

scarp   

band   

declivity    outcrop    acclivity    scarp    promontory    mountainside    ridgeline    foothill    butte    Shoreline