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Coun´ter`scarp` (koun`tẽr`skärp`)

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(Fort.) 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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