Main Entry: es·ca·lade

Pronunciation: \ˈes-kə-ˌlād, -ˌläd\

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