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scalade

[ skuh-leyd ]

noun

, Archaic.


scalade

/ skəˈleɪdəʊ; skəˈleɪd /

noun

  1. short for escalade
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scalade1

First recorded in 1585–95; variant of escalade
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scalade1

C16: from Old Italian scalada, from scala a ladder; see scale ³
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Example Sentences

“I took the opportunity of some dry horse litter and gave her such a thundering scalade that electrified the very marrow of her bones,” he says.

Among those Welsh chieftains who gallantly defended their country from the aggressions of the English, in the reign of Henry II, was Kadivor ap Dynawal, who recaptured the castle of Cardigan, by scalade, from the Earl of Clare.

Despair and blankness fell upon 452 us, until Count Saxe, seeing a great, weird Thing standing gaunt and black in the white moonlight—this Thing, the gallows tree—cried out cheerfully: “See, my lads, yonder are likely to be some short ladders; these we will splice with rope, and so make the scalade!”

Harte's History of Gustavus, a wilderness which mere human patience seems unable to explore, is yet enlivened here and there with a cheerful spot, when he tells us of some scalade or camisado, or speculates on troopers rendered bullet-proof by art-magic.

A sudden sally of the townsmen during the battle chiefly occasioned confusion: Camillus, turning on these with a part of his army, not only drove them within their walls, but on the very same day, after he had discomfited themselves and their auxiliaries, he took the town by scalade.

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