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verb

Scale v. t. (past & past part. scaled; pres. part. scaling) To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system. "Scaling his present bearing with his past."

To scale a debt, wages, etc. or To scale down a debt, wages, etc., to reduce a debt, etc., according to a fixed ratio or scale. (U.S.)

Scale v. t.

To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.

To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface. "If all the mountains were scaled, and the earth made even."

To scatter; to spread. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)

(Gun.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

Scale v. t. To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort. "Oft have I scaled the craggy oak."

Scale v. i.

To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure. "Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off."

To separate; to scatter. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)

Scale v. i. To lead up by steps; to ascend. (Obs.) "Satan from hence, now on the lower stair, That scaled by steps of gold to heaven-gate, Looks down with wonder."

adjective

Scaling adj.

Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.

Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.

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"Scaling" Quotes from Famous Books

... smile, "that you have already discovered that my lower members are the product—not of Nature, but of Art. It was not always thus with me—but in my younger days I was an ardent climber—indeed, I am still an Honorary Member of the Hampstead Heath Alpine Club. Many years since, whilst scaling Primrose Hill, I was compelled, by a sudden storm, to take refuge in a half-way hut, where I passed the night, exposed to all the rigours of an English Midsummer! When I awoke I found, to my surprise, that both my legs had been bitten by the relentless frost short off immediately below the knee, ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., February 7, 1891 • Various

... and aristocracy around Hilton has had somewhat the same effect upon the people that it confines. If a social barrier of any sort appears upon the horizon of my sister-in-law Edith, she is never happy until she has climbed over it. She was in the very midst of scaling that high and difficult barrier built up about Hilton by the Summer ...

— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty

... hard nut to crack," Cuthbert said, laughing. "With such arms as you have in the forest the enterprise would be something akin to scaling the skies." ...

— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty

... Flower o' the Lily (HODDER AND STOUGHTON), should not be regarded as in any way bearing upon the more modern history of that remarkable city. It has nothing to do with our war; it has a war of its own, a rapid affair of bows and arrows, scaling ladders and such desperate situations as can be, and were, saved by the arrival of the right man, single-handed, in the right place at the right moment. Familiar as is his type in novels of this adventurous kind, I ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 29, 1919 • Various

... rampart; the thirteenth were carried by their own impetuosity to the gate that looked toward Brixia.[130] Some delay then took place while they supplied themselves from the neighboring villages with pickaxes, spades, and hooks, and scaling-ladders. They then formed a close military shell with their shields raised above their heads, and under that cover advanced to the ramparts. The Roman art of war was seen on both sides. The Vitellians rolled down massy stones, with which, having disjoined ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various

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