A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
1The ladders were thrown down, but they were quickly again raised against the escarp.
2The ladders were immediately seized by their comrades, who, after one or two vain attempts, succeeded in placing them against the escarp.
3The smooth and verdant escarp of the river-berg guided us, while the river itself was sometimes at hand and sometimes four miles off.
4It placed one ladder, by which the General descended into the ditch, and was, it is said, the first up the escarp of the work.
5He discovered D'Hérouville leaning against a cannon, contemplating the escarps and bastions of the citadel.
6As I approached Montbrun, the next village, the rocks which hemmed in the valley became more boldly escarped.
7Its course was almost due west, and the valley in which it flowed was deep and boldly escarped.
8In this I was nevertheless mistaken; for although the valley was well escarped, it did not contain even the trace of a watercourse.
9On either side of the gorge rose abrupt stony hills thinly wooded, chiefly with stunted oak, or escarped craggy cliffs pierced with yawning caverns.