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scalade, n. Now rare or Obs.|skəˈlɑːd|
Also 7 skal(l)ade, scallet.
[ad. It. scalada (Florio), now scalata (= Sp. escalada, whence F. escalade escalade n.), f. scalare to scale, f. scala ladder.]
1. = escalade n. 1.
1591Garrard's Art Warre 63 A Wall, Trench, Scalade, Bulwarke. 1600Holland Livy xxvi. xlv. 620 The citie was tenable against all skalades. 1632Lithgow Trav. viii. 349 The Ditch..is mainly pallasaded with wooden stakes, for preuenting of suddain Scallets. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. iii. (1677) 138 The Lords had resolved to enter the Town by scalade. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. I. xii. 265 The English army..mounted the walls by scalade. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iii. x. (1872) I. 195 He tried some small prefatory Siege or scalade of Pesth. 1859Thackeray Virgin. II. xxvi. 213 When we had made our famous scalade of the heights.
2. A scaling-ladder. rare.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 502 Their Armes, a Crosse,..Limbd like a Scallet, trac'd with fleur du Luce. 1824J. H. Wiffen Tasso xviii. xcv, Nor ceases to exhort Fresh knights to mount the tall scalades he bears.
Hence scaˈlade v. trans., to attack by escalade.
1729G. Shelvocke Artillery v. 393 Places, when attacked or attempted to be stormed or scaladed. |