Home › Words › S › scaurscaur/skɔː/scaur means A steep cliff or bank.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, scaur ranks #8,614 of 42,747 for Qualifying.scaur is pronounced /skɔː/.EtymologyA dialectal form of scar.nounA steep cliff or bank.e.g.“The crag is high, the scaur is deep, / Yet shrink not from the desperate leap […].” — 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XIII:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.scarping 71% match — A scarp (cliff caused by erosion). vs scaur →scarry 70% match — Like a scar, or rocky eminence. vs scaur →escarpment 68% match — 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. vs scaur →scarplet 66% match — A small scarp. vs scaur →scarcement 66% match — An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing. vs scaur →scarpland 65% match — A landscape characterised by scarps. vs scaur →broogh 65% match — A steep bank or grassy cliff. vs scaur →scrobe 65% match — A trench. vs scaur →