Significados de escarp en inglés

The ladders were thrown down, but they were quickly again raised against the escarp.

The ladders were immediately seized by their comrades, who, after one or two vain attempts, succeeded in placing them against the escarp.

The smooth and verdant escarp of the river-berg guided us, while the river itself was sometimes at hand and sometimes four miles off.

It placed one ladder, by which the General descended into the ditch, and was, it is said, the first up the escarp of the work.

He discovered D'Hérouville leaning against a cannon, contemplating the escarps and bastions of the citadel.

As I approached Montbrun, the next village, the rocks which hemmed in the valley became more boldly escarped.

Its course was almost due west, and the valley in which it flowed was deep and boldly escarped.

In this I was nevertheless mistaken; for although the valley was well escarped, it did not contain even the trace of a watercourse.

On either side of the gorge rose abrupt stony hills thinly wooded, chiefly with stunted oak, or escarped craggy cliffs pierced with yawning caverns.