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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Escalade \Es`ca*lade"\, n. [F., Sp escalada (cf. It scalata),
fr Sp escalar to scale, LL scalare, fr L. scala ladder.
See {Scale}, v. t.] (Mil.)
A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place in
which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or
treachery. --Buckminster.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Escalade \Es`ca*lade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Escaladed}; p. pr
& vb n. {Escalading}.] (Mil.)
To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as
to escalate a wall.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
escalade
n : an act of scaling the walls of a fortification
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