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Counterscarf
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; - sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Counterscarf'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/counterscarf.html. 1828.