The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scarping
Scarp \Scarp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarping.] To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone.
--Tennyson.
Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain.
--Emerson.
Wiktionary
scarping
vb. (present participle of scarp English)