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Definition of Escarping
1. escarp [v] - See also: escarp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escarping
Literary usage of Escarping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the City and County of Cork by Mary Francis Cusack (1875)
"The sea, by its more powerful action on the exposed headlands, is escarping them
into precipices, ie, wearing them a way, leaving the inner parts of the ..."
2. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"The enemy now being occupied in escarping and furnishing with batteries the
positions he had gained, with the obvious intention of attacking the new ..."
3. The Popular History of England by Charles Knight (1880)
"The chain of hills from Sobral to the sea was defended in a similar manner, by
escarping the sides, by shutting up their gorges with redoubts, by connecting ..."
4. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1874)
"Forming the north side of the triangle, a runner of water still flows, the banks
of which show mark of escarping. On the south side, the ditch has been ..."
5. Riparian Lands of the Mississippi River, Past--present--prospective: Being a by Frank H. Tompkins (1901)
"In ascending a mountain range, instead of excavating, escarping and tunneling a
road for ourselves, we have only to find in the lowlands a river, ..."
6. The Climates and Baths of Great Britain: Being the Report of a Committee of by Robert Barnes, J. Mitchel Bruce, William Ewart, William Murrell (1895)
"... will be passed through Parliament for the preservation of this portion of the
coast by escarping the cliff and making a road along the whole distance. ..."
7. A Narrative of the Peninsular War by Andrew Leith Hay (1850)
"... as an example, may be cited the gigantic work of escarping the mountain near
Alhandra for a connected distance of nearly two miles, rendering its crest ..."
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