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.
| 1596 Sir F. Vere Comm. ii. (1657) 38 A massy rampier, with two round half bulwarks,..not steeped and scarped: so as it was very mountable. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 173 The sides steeped and so hanging over, that it sometimes preserves Snow all the Summer. 1858 Merc. Mar. Mag. V. 361 The islet is..steeped to on all sides. |