scalade
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of scalade
First recorded in 1585–95; variant of escalade
Example Sentences
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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 Thomas Carlyle
Wentworth starts building batteries, in spite of the rain-deluges; then stops building;—decides to do it by scalade, after all.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
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 Thomas Carlyle
Count Daun comes on in a tempest of furious fire; 'very heavy,' they say, from great guns and small; till close upon the place, when he summons Du Chatelet: 'No;' and thereupon attempts scalade.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle
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 Titus Livius
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