escalade

/หŒษ›skษ™หˆleษชd/

IPA: /EH0 S K AH0 L AA1 D/

noun
  1. 1

    An act of scaling walls or fortifications

    โ€œAn escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops.โ€

verb
  1. 1

    To scale the walls of a fortification.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escalade