Word For The Day, Thursday, March 5, 2015-- escarp

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Word For The Day, Thursday, March 5, 2015-- escarp

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

escarp [ih-skahrp]

hear it pronounced

noun

1. Fortification. the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart.
2. any similar steep slope.

verb (used with object)

3. to make into an escarp; give a steep slope to; furnish with escarps.

Origin: "steep slope," 1680s, from French escarpe (16c.), from Italian scarpa (see scarp).

Related forms

escarpment, noun

1. Geology. a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust.
2. ground cut into an escarp around a fortification or defensive position.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The Tea Party needs to build a two-sided escarp, to keep the liberals at bay on one side, and the RINOs on the other.

[SoothingDave]

ibtp

[Cowman]

When Fernando was asked what he thought of Obama he replied “Escarp.”

Fernando always did tend to reverse his a’s and r’s

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

There’s been a little shakeup in the teacher assignments. I have moved from Wednesday to Thursday. Tioga has gone from Friday to Wednesday and has agreed to handle Friday as well until we get a volunteer to help out. I’ve got a really good template that’s easy to work with, if any of you out there would care to give it a try, even just once a month.

Other than that, it’s snowing hard in New Jersey, for a change. I’m housebound and waiting for some good posts.

[Diogenesis]

The US Congress needs an escarp inside the structure,
built by the People this year,
to house thousand of incurably-infected criminal illegals
inside of Congress, so that all the special, lawless,
EXEMPT can “live” together.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Indeed, you are first.

[Old Sarge]

The ground I have regained from being a homeless vet four years ago, until now, has been a mighty escarp to climb.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++

Quasi bi-lingual kudos.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++

An idea whose time has come!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++
Congratulations on making it out, Sarge.

[SoothingDave]

That’s what you get when you cross a French snail with a fish, innit?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

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[MrB]

I think that would be an escarpo.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++

That’s what you get when you cross a French snail with a fish, innit?

Especially if you set it up in a closely held corporation which offers some tax advantages.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

And when that snail takes off, everyone yells, “Look at that S-Car go!”

[NicknamedBob]

Escarp

noun

1. Fortification. the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart.
2. any similar steep slope.

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I have one of these at my house. Those not truly in the know call it a driveway.

It’s especially impassable when covered with snow, as it is now.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++

In Boston, they can't even find their driveways.

[NicknamedBob]

"In Boston, they can't even find their driveways."

Sigh. Oh to be that drunk on a weekday.

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(Just kidding!)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Good morning - I shouldn’t have bragged about our weather...two degrees colder and we would have had ice/snow....the storm almost blew us away last night, complete with thunder!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Stay warm.