escarpment
e skorp muhnt
- n a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion
- n a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
- As a blood-red sun was sinking behind the thorn trees on the Zambezi escarpment, a lumbering Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner took off from Kariba on a flight to Salisbury.
- In the escarpment hamlet of Shomera, Israelis like Gabriel Peretz, the owner of a bed-and-breakfast, can do little more than brace for the next attack.
- Thence a tunnel would be bored under the rocky escarpment that rises along the Depression's northern rim.