counterscarp
nounEtymology From counter- + scarp.
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Architecture The outer slope of a defensive or fortified ditch
- —I would throw out the earth upon this hand towards the town for the scarp,—and on that hand towards the campaign for the counterscarp.—Very right, Trim, quoth my uncle Toby:—And when I had sloped them to your mind,——an’ please your Honour, I would face the glacis, as the finest fortifications are done in Flanders, with sods,——and as your Honour knows they should be,—and I would make the walls and parapets with sods too.1659, Laurence Sterne, chapter XXX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: