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steeped, a.|stiːpt|
[f. steep v.2 + -ed1.]
Of a rock, rampart: Having a precipitous face or side. Obs. exc. in steeped-to = steep-to.
1596Sir F. Vere Comm. ii. (1657) 38 A massy rampier, with two round half bulwarks,..not steeped and scarped: so as it was very mountable. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 173 The sides steeped and so hanging over, that it sometimes preserves Snow all the Summer. 1858Merc. Mar. Mag. V. 361 The islet is..steeped to on all sides. |