scarping

Our House is undergoing an extensive repair or brush up, such as scarping the Brickwork, and painting, so that by the time we are forced to turn out we shall begin to be very smart.

Letter 298 2009

I'm scarping out the pooh because we have to keep the lot clean.

CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009 2009

Since we are scarping along on a marginal existence at the moment, you have basically deprived us of the mailing - - as you are aware.

Archive 2008-10-01 Chris Perridas 2008

Since we are scarping along on a marginal existence at the moment, you have basically deprived us of the mailing - - as you are aware.

Antiquarian Weird Tales: 1959 Ted White - FAPA Controversy Chris Perridas 2008

Grass and trees showed to one side of him and rocks, steep and scarping upwards, on the other.

Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

A.B., lost his hold of the scarping on the starboard fore-and-aft bridge, through the wood treacherously giving away with his weight, and, being unable to swim, the poor fellow soon sank exhausted, just as

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

Russians very strongly established themselves, scarping the heights and constructing formidable breastworks behind which to shelter themselves.

Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Harry Collingwood 1886

In these countries, therefore, the necessity for irrigation must soon have been felt, and its introduction into mountainous regions like Armenia must have been immediately followed by a system of terracing, or at least scarping the hillsides.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical) 1874

Soon afterwards, however, nothing could be heard except a furious scratching, the sound of metal scarping at the plaster.

The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

In these countries, therefore, the necessity for irrigation must soon have been felt, and its introduction into mountainous regions like Armenia must have been immediately followed by a system of terracing, or at least scarping the hillsides.

The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841