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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The escalade of masonry escarpments eighteen feet high can never be successful without much preparation.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
The assailants had no heavy artillery, nor any material for escalade; but they had money, and gold proved a better battering-train than lead.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
Moreover, he felt that escalade hardly became either his age or habit of body.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
It had finally been decided to carry the town by escalade, and this was to be attempted during the first snow-storm, such as that which finally came on this night preceding Sunday, December 31st.
From The Road to Paris by Robert Neilson Stephens
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
But the walls did not give to the citizens all the security they desired; the ramparts might be battered down, escaladed, or the gates burst open.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
He escaladed the path, left it, returned to it, quick and venturous.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Fifty men had escaladed the wall before the alarm spread through the town; a gate was soon burst to permit the entrance of Count Maurice with a body of cavalry.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
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
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
General Schoedde’s brigade, however, was received by a hot fire of guns, jingalls, and matchlocks, and in consequence he gave orders for immediately escalading the walls.
From Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston
They had a forward rake to increase by the overhang the difficulty of escalading them.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
The walls of the peaceful Mission garden and the warlike presidio were alike lost in the escalading vines or leveled by the pushing boughs of gnarled pear and olive trees that now surmounted them.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte
About 8 o'clock in the evening of June 3, 1916, the Germans attempted to surprise the fortress at the southeast by escalading the ravine which cuts the bank of the Meuse near Damloup.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
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