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Escalade

//ˌɛskəˈleɪd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of scaling walls or fortifications.

    "An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops."

  2. 2
    an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To scale the walls of a fortification. dated
  2. 2
    climb up and over wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.

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