escaladen.

/ɛskəˈleɪd/

Forms: Also 1700s escallade.

Etymology: < French escalade, < Spanish escalada = Italian scalata , < Italian scalare , medieval Latin scalāre to scale, < Latin scāla ladder. Compare scalade n., scalado n.

1. The action of scaling the walls of a fortified place by the use of ladders; also transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > escalade

scalinga1513

scale1577

scalado1585

scalade1591

escalade1598

escalado1598

escalading1833

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Scalada, an escalade, a scaling of a wall with ladders.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 60 He must raze the Fort of S^t. Katherine, and attempt..a second Escalade.

1712 London Gaz. No. 5026/5 Two thousand of the Enemy attempted..to take Arrouches by Escallade.

1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 180 He prepared ladders for an escalade.

1824 J. H. Wiffen tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered xii. iii Whilst I..with distant shafts but checked Their eager escalade.

1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 416 Had they been aware how little it [the fort] was injured, they would not have recommended the escalade so soon.

1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights I. 161 The wall had been protected against such an escalade by..old bottles.

2. A series of terraces one above the other, like a staircase.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] > horizontal layer or tier > arrangement in > a tiered arrangement

escalade1853

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. vi. 46 The washings of the melted snows had accumulated, in little escalades or terraces, a scanty mould.

Derivatives

escaˈladed adj. [-ed suffix²] formed into an ‘escalade’ (sense 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [adjective] > arranged in tiers

tiered1807

escaladed1856

tiering1892

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiv. 148 The escaladed structure of the Arctic glacier.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

escaladev.

/ɛskəˈleɪd/

Etymology: < escalade n.

transitive. To climb up and get over or enter (a wall, rampart, etc.) by means of ladders; to scale.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > penetrate by force > attack by escalade

scale?a1400

scalade1729

escalade1801

1801 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 361 They might escalade the outer wall, taking care to carry over some ladders for the purpose of escalading the inner wall.

1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. I. iii. 153 The insurgents..began..to escalade the inner walls.

Derivatives

escaˈlader n. one who escalades.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > others

artificera1553

man-catcher1649

stormer1655

sallier1685

pressmana1694

camp colour-man1753

sharpshooter1802

train soldier1833

escalader1849

adviser1854

outflanker1854

observer1870

spiker1884

mopper-up1917

slushy1919

wire-cutter1922

televisionary1925

flash-spotter1930

spotter1931

parashooter1940

parashot1940

bunker buster1944

sound-ranger1978

yomper1982

technical1992

1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xli. 157 The successful escaladers opened the gates to the entire Persian host.

1863 W. Thornbury True as Steel III. 105 The escaladers were then to advance.

escaˈlading n. in quot. 1833 attributive.

ΘΚΠ