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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An act of scaling a wall; an escalade.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An assault on a fortified place in which the soldiers enter by means of ladders; an escalade.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mil.) See escalade.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of Italian scalata, from scala, ladder; see escalade.]

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