Scarp

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

2. A steep descent or declivity.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock. From scarped cliff and quarried stone. Tennyson. Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. Emerson.