scalade

American  

[skuh-leyd] / skəˈleɪd /

noun

Archaic.

1. escalade.

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scalade British  

/ skəˈleɪdəʊ, skəˈleɪd /

noun

1. short for escalade

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Etymology

Origin of scalade

First recorded in 1585–95; variant of escalade

Example Sentences

Cannot scalade, Du Chatelet and his people being mettlesome; takes then to flinging shells, to burning the suburbs; Town itself catches fire,—Town plainly indefensible.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Carlyle, Thomas

He tried some small prefatory Siege or scalade of Pesth; could not do it; and came his ways home again, as the best course.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Carlyle, Thomas

Daulis, being situated on a lofty eminence, could not be reduced either by scalade or works: he therefore provoked the garrison, by missile weapons, to make sallies from out the town.

From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus

Friedrich has learned, by intercepted letters, that something great is to be done on Wednesday, 18th: he sends Rothenburg with reinforcement to Einsiedel, lest a scalade of Prag should be on the cards.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas

NW. of Liegnitz; is a place of manufacture; was brilliantly taken by Frederick the Great in the Silesian War on the 9th March 1741 by scalade, in one hour, at the very break of day.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin