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

Posted on 03/05/2015 5:29:15 AM PST by 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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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.
1 posted on 03/05/2015 5:29:16 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

ibtp


2 posted on 03/05/2015 5:31:28 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
When Fernando was asked what he thought of Obama he replied “Escarp.”

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

3 posted on 03/05/2015 5:32:17 AM PST by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

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.


4 posted on 03/05/2015 5:33:38 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

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.


5 posted on 03/05/2015 5:34:19 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: SoothingDave
gold

Indeed, you are first.

6 posted on 03/05/2015 5:35:11 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

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


7 posted on 03/05/2015 5:35:41 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Cowman
A++

silver

Quasi bi-lingual kudos.

8 posted on 03/05/2015 5:36:36 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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To: Diogenesis
A+++

bronze

An idea whose time has come!

9 posted on 03/05/2015 5:37:21 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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To: Old Sarge

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


10 posted on 03/05/2015 5:38:01 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

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


11 posted on 03/05/2015 5:38:15 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

If anyone wishes to be added (or removed) from the Ping List, just send me a private reply.


12 posted on 03/05/2015 5:39:26 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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To: SoothingDave
I think that would be an escarpo.


13 posted on 03/05/2015 5:47:04 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SoothingDave
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.

14 posted on 03/05/2015 5:48:05 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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And when that snail takes off, everyone yells, “Look at that S-Car go!”


15 posted on 03/05/2015 5:49:29 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

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.


16 posted on 03/05/2015 6:30:59 AM PST by NicknamedBob (Do your light housework in your dreams. What else is sleep for but to clear away the cobwebs?)
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To: NicknamedBob
A++

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

17 posted on 03/05/2015 6:33:18 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"In Boston, they can't even find their driveways."

Sigh. Oh to be that drunk on a weekday.

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(Just kidding!)

18 posted on 03/05/2015 7:42:19 AM PST by NicknamedBob (Do your light housework in your dreams. What else is sleep for but to clear away the cobwebs?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

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!


19 posted on 03/05/2015 8:29:24 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Tactical Firearms,Katy Tx: "the two enemies of guns, rust and politicians")
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Stay warm.


20 posted on 03/05/2015 8:30:52 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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