a. [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.
