Word Meanings - ESCALADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ESCALADE)

• Climb
• Ascend
• mount
• clamber
• swarm
• surmount
• scale
• escalade
• soar
• creep up
• rise

Related words: (words related to ESCALADE)

• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• CLIMB
  To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• CREEPY
  Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• CREEPLE
  1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple
• SWARM
  To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
• ASCENDIBLE
  Capable of being ascended; climbable.
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• SCALEBEAM
  1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
• MOUNTEBANK
  1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
• MOUNT
  A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. (more info) montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. 1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding
• CREEPINESS
  An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.
• ASCENDING
  Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude , the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line , the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• OUTCLIMB
  To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.
• REMOUNT
  To mount again.
• POLY-MOUNTAIN
  Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.