arch. Also 6–7 escalada. [a. Sp. escalada (see ESCALADE); first used in correct form, afterwards with the usual perversion of Sp. -ada into -ADO 2.] = ESCALADE sb.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, Gloss. 250. Escalada … is the skaling of a wall or fort with ladders.
1600. Holland, Livy, XLII. lxiii. 1152. The Consull … purposed to invest the citie round about with the Escalado.
1625. Bacon, Consid. War w. Spain (1629), 32. That … we should … haue won one Towne of importance by Escalida.
1641. Baker, Chron., 67. Using all meanes possible, by Escalado, Battery, and burning the gates, to enter the City.
1859. Thackeray, Virgin., lxxii. Tragedies, intrigues, serenades, escaladoes.
