Escalade (noun)
es-kal-ayd
The scaling of fortified walls using ladders, as a form of military attack.
Late 16th century: from French, or from Spanish escalada, escalado, from medieval Latin scalare ‘to scale, climb’, from Latin scala ‘ladder’.
Example sentences
“We lost twenty men during the escalade.”
Mackle (verb) mak-ul to blur, as from a double impression in printing First used in 1585–95. A variant of earlier macle, makle; earlier macule (from the Latin macula, “spot, blemish”).…