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Escalade   /ˌɛskəlˈɑd/   Listen
Escalade

noun
1.
An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).



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"Escalade" Quotes from Famous Books



... without a large baggage train was next to impossible; and indeed if the Christians were to arrive before that city, they could effect nothing without the aid of the heavy machines necessary for battering the walls or effecting an escalade. ...
— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty
... the town, and had opened one of the gates, and by this means the whole army got in. The engineer himself, who had proposed the plan, went up first on the first ladder that was planted against the wall. To take the lead in such an escalade required great coolness and courage, for it was dark, and no one knew, in going up the ladder, how many enemies he might have to encounter ...
— Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series • Jacob Abbott
... sorrow of love, was riding between Pont de Ce and Angiers, and how other knights met him and gave him counsel. These lines I read, and getting them by rote, took them for my device, for they bid the lover thrust himself foremost in the press, and in breach, mine, and escalade. ...
— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang


Words linked to "Escalade" :   go up, mount, climb, scaling, climb up


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