Escalade is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ESCALADE in dictionary:

VERB:
• (French) to scale the walls of a fortress by ladders, also ESCALADO, SCALADE, SCALADO
• A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
• To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.
• climb up and over
• gain access to (a place) by the use of ladders
NOUN:
• the scaling of fortified walls using ladders, as a form of military attack.
• assault by the use of ladders, esp on a fortification
• an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to enter by means of ladders

Words related to ESCALADE

escaladed13 escalader12 escaladers13 escalades12 escalading14 escalado11 scalade10

Words that contain ESCALADE

escaladed13 escalader12 escalades12 escaladers13

How to use ESCALADE in a sentence

• They carried the important fortress of Napoli di Romania by escalade December 12, under Kolokotronis, with ten thousand men, and the garrison, weakened by famine, capitulated.
• Occasionally they employed the destructive force of fire, and no doubt they often succeeded by the common method of escalade.
• See in what a great leap of the heart you spring with the forlorn hope up the escalade! Your soul kindles and flashes with your blade.
• The remainder of his troops diverged a little to the right to escalade the breach in the Kashmir bastion.
• These lines I read, and getting them by rote, took them for my device, for they bid the lover thrust himself foremost in the press, and in breach, mine, and escalade.
• But the manner of the Maid was ever to send cloud upon cloud of men to make escalade by ladders, their comrades aiding them from under cover with fire of couleuvrines and bows.
• Besides, supposing that we had even taken the Lower Town by escalade, we would not have been further advanced.
• At the base of the escalade my men sublet their loads to spare coolies who were waiting there in numbers for the purpose, and climbed up with me empty-handed.
• An escalade of sheer mountains and a battling through vales choked with unbelievable thorns.
• The vigilance of months was rendered worthless by that amazing night escalade.
• He described those fortifications as having wide, deep ditches, with palisades, which would prevent the escalade of the works.
• Nor, so far as can be ascertained at the distant time at which I write, did the suspicions which the night of the Escalade found in the bud survive it.
• Why should I bow to the Ages Because they were drear and dry? Slow trees and ripening meadows For me go roaring by, A living charge, a struggle To escalade the sky.
• We shall see the windows open, and the lady enter by escalade.
• What a precipice! Even dreams dissolved before such a perpendicular height to escalade.
• A vigorous escalade, however, gained the base court, and the sharp fire of the French arquebusiers drove the bowmen into the square keep, or dungeon, of the fortress.
• This was where the dangerous ascent began, a difficult ascent at the start, because of the excessive steepness, and developing, mid-way, into an absolute escalade.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.