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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bluff, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cliff, contravallation, counterscarp, crag, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, face, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, palisades, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, precipice, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scar, scarp, sconce, steep, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, work

Dictionary Results for escarpment:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

escarpment
    n 1: a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or
         ridge; usually formed by erosion [syn: escarpment,
         scarp]
    2: a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification [syn:
       escarpment, escarp, scarp, protective embankment]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Escarpment \Es*carp"ment\, n. [Cf. F. escarpement.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

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