Crossword-Solution: ESCARPMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Escarpment | n. | A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “ESCARPMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Long cliff. | 1 answer |
| a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge | 1 answer |
| a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | 1 answer |
| a steep slope in front of a fortification | 1 answer |
| CLIFFLIKE RIDGE | 2 answers |
| escarp | 3 answers |
| Fortification slope | 3 answers |
| jump up | 4 answers |
| Steep Slope | 6 answers |
| ditchside fortification | 10 answers |
| Cliff | 25 answers |
| High Land | 46 answers |
| gradient | 47 answers |
| hump | 48 answers |
| Incline | 62 answers |
| Slope | 66 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ESCARPMENT (5)
The stony escarpment upon which they stood had the contour of a man’s face, and it was covered with furze as with a beard.
Grace descended the green escarpment by a zigzag path into the drive, which swept round beneath the slope.
His dark hand stretched, he sighted over his stretched finger at a low white escarpment in the distance.
The cliff-tops, though ragged, were of such uniform height as to suggest the boundaries of a great plateau, and now and again we caught glimpses of verdure topping the rocky escarpment, as though bush or jungle-land had pushed outward from a lush vegetation farther inland to signal to an unseeing world that Caprona lived and joyed in life beyond her austere and repellent coast.
Wardlaw stood pinching my arm as the great tattoo swept down the escarpment, and died away in the far mountains beyond the Olifants.
Quotes with ESCARPMENT (1)
The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1966–2015).