Vocabulary : Escaped to Escarpment

Escaped : of Escape
Escapement : The act of escaping; escape. ;; Way of escape; vent. ;; The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.
Escaper : One who escapes.
Escaping : of Escape
Escarbuncle : See Carbuncle, 3.

Escargatoire : A nursery of snails.
Escarp : The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp. ;; To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.
Escarped : of Escarp
Escarping : of Escarp
Escarpment : A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.

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