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.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
The huts of the men, also surrounded by stockades, were so placed on either side of the dwelling-house that they could sweep the front by a cross-fire should an enemy ever attempt to escalade our walls.
"With Axe and Rifle"
W.H.G. Kingston
No: a revolution in ideas and in prejudices is not made with that rapidity; it moves gradually; it does not escalade.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke