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▪ I. escalade, n.|ɛskəˈleɪd|
Also 8 escallade.
[a. Fr. escalade, ad. Sp. escalada = It. scalata, f. It. and med.L. scalāre to scale, f. L. scāla ladder. Cf. scalade, scalado.]
1. The action of scaling the walls of a fortified place by the use of ladders; also transf. and fig.
1598Florio, Scalada, an escalade, a scaling of a wall with ladders. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. I. 60 He must raze the Fort of St. Katherine, and attempt..a second Escalade. 1712Lond. Gaz. No. 5026/5 Two thousand of the Enemy attempted..to take Arrouches by Escallade. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 180 He prepared ladders for an escalade. 1824J. H. Wiffen Tasso xii. iii, Whilst I..with distant shafts but checked Their eager escalade. 1832Southey Hist. Penins. War III. 416 Had they been aware how little it [the fort] was injured, they would not have recommended the escalade so soon. 1884Stevenson New Arab. Nts. 107 The wall had been protected against such an escalade by..old bottles.
¶2. ? erroneous use. A series of terraces one above the other, like a staircase. Hence the same writer forms escaˈladed a. [-ed2], formed into an ‘escalade’.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. vi. (1856) 46 The washings of the melted snows had accumulated, in little escalades or terraces, a scanty mould. 1856― Arct. Expl. II. xiv. 148 The escaladed structure of the Arctic glacier.
▪ II. escalade, v.|ɛskəˈleɪd|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To climb up and get over or enter (a wall, rampart, etc.) by means of ladders; to scale.
1801Wellington in Gurw. Disp. I. 361 They might escalade the outer wall, taking care to carry over some ladders for the purpose of escalading the inner wall. 1839Alison Hist. Europe (1849) I. iv. 535 A..multitude had already begun..to escalade the parapets.
Hence escaˈlader, one who escalades. escaˈlading vbl. n., in quot. attrib.
1849Grote Greece ii. xli. V. 157 The successful escaladers opened the gates to the entire Persian host. 1863Thornbury True as Steel III. 105 The escaladers were then to advance. 1839–42Alison Hist. Europe (ed. 8) III. xviii. 557 A loud shout..announced the success of the escalading party. |