escalade(n = noun.act) - an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification);
is a kind of scaling
Derived form verb escalade₁

   escalade(v = verb.motion) - climb up and over; "They had to escalade canyons to reach their destination"
is one way to climb, climb up, go up, mount
Derived forms noun escalade₁, noun escalader₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

   A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. [1913 Webster]
"Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery." [1913 Webster]

   To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall. [1913 Webster]

escalade, n. the scaling of fortified walls with ladders, as a military attack.

Etymology:
F f. Sp. escalada, -ado f. med.L scalare f. scala ladder

N  attack, assault, assault and battery, onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, offense, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, estrapade, ruade, coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray, run at, run against, dead set at, storm, storming, boarding, escalade, siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade, fire, volley, platoon fire, file fire, fusillade, sharpshooting, broadside, raking fire, cross fire, volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer, cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust, coupe de bec, kick, punch, battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade, devastation, eboulement, assailant, aggressor, invader, base of operations, point of attack, echelon, attacking, aggressive, offensive, obsidional, up in arms, on the offensive, Int, up and at them!, the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death, their fatal hands no second stroke intend, thirst for glory quells the love of life.

VB  ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise, go up, get up, work one's way up, start up, shoot up, go into orbit, float up, bubble up, aspire, climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount, shin, shinny, shinney, scale, scale the heights, raise, elevate, go aloft, fly aloft, tower, soar, take off, spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards, hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge, leap.