scaladen.
/skəˈlɑːd/ Now rare or Obsolete.
1. = escalade n. 1.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > escalade
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1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 63 A Wall, Trench, Scalade, Bulwarke.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. xlv. 620 The citie was tenable against all skalades.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 349 The Ditch..is mainly pallasaded with wooden stakes, for preuenting of suddain Scallets.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) iii. 138 The Lords had resolved to enter the Town by scalade.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. xii. 265 The English army..mounted the walls by scalade.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. x. 275 He tried some small prefatory Siege or scalade of Pesth.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians II. xxvi. 213 When we had made our famous scalade of the heights.
2. A scaling-ladder. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > scaling-ladder or scaffold
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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 502 Their Armes, a Crosse,..Limbd like a Scallet, trac'd with fleur du Luce.
1824 J. H. Wiffen tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered xviii. xcv Nor ceases to exhort Fresh knights to mount the tall scalades he bears.
Derivatives
scaˈlade v. (transitive) to attack by escalade.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > penetrate by force > attack by escalade
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1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery v. 393 Places, when attacked or attempted to be stormed or scaladed.
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