n.
Pronunciation: ' es-k ə - ˌ l ā d, - ˌ läd
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Italian scalata, from scalare to scale, from scala ladder, from Late Latin ― more at SCALE
Date: 1598
: an act of scaling especially the walls of a fortification
– escalade transitive verb
– es · ca · lad · er noun