escalade
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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Etymology
Origin of escalade
1590–1600; < Middle French < Old Provençal *escalada, equivalent to escal ( ar ) to scale 3 + -ada -ade 1
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"I so did, sir—same being in the act o' scaling wall—taking my lady's garden by escalade as ye might say."
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
The Spaniards, certain of an escalade, at night brought down the great eighteen pound ship guns of the fort to the side of the island looking towards the land, and left the sea-shore almost defenceless.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
For escalade they used ladders fixed on wheeled platforms; but the most important means of attack against a high wall were the movable towers of wood.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
Against this has been set an optimistic evolution, pictured like an escalade with resident forces lifting the world to better days.
From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince
Impatient, however, of the delay of his fleet, which was detained by the weather, he determined not to wait for the artillery, but to attempt to carry the fort by escalade.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
For facing us were the mountain heights, which had to be escaladed before we could leave the river gulch.
From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison
Meanwhile the first column under Nicholson escaladed the breaches near the Cashmere gate, and pushed along the ramparts toward the Kabul gate, carrying the several bastions in the way.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
This court, moreover, was entirely hemmed in by a wall, which, if successfully escaladed, would lead us to the parade ground of the chateau.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
The cat escaped once more and Mahony began to throw stones at the wall she had escaladed.
From Dubliners by James Joyce
They collided with terrific force and, telescoping being out of the question since both were loaded with minerals, escaladed each other in Eiffel-tower fashion.
From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas
He was a fortress that required to be stormed, but there was considerable local curiosity about him, so that by-and- by escalading parties were formed, some of which were partly successful.
From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Edmund Gosse
"When you promised me—" stammered Nicky-Nan, escalading the stairs and holding his staff before him as if storming a breach.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
It was this Yorinobu who won such fame by escalading the castle of Taira Tadatsune and who established his family's footing in the Kwanto.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
It might be thought that this manner of building offered considerable facilities to an escalading enemy.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
They had a forward rake to increase by the overhang the difficulty of escalading them.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
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