† scaˈlado Obs.
Also 6 skallado, skallader, 6–7 scallado, scallada, scalada.
[a. It. scalada: see prec. and -ado.]
1. = scalade n. 1.
| 1585–6 Earl of Leicester Corr. (Camden) 429 We tooke another of the fortes..by a flat skallader. 1591 Sir H. Unton Corr. (Roxb.) 254 If it be taken by the enemy by scallado. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 128 They that gave the Scallado were throwen downe headlong. 1629 Maxwell Herodian App. 90 The whole Army beset the Towne, and made their Scaladaes on euery side. 1688 J. S. Fortification 129 The General..threatens several other places with the Scalado at the same instant. 1795 Hist. Anecd. Her. & Chiv. 22 Lloyd took the castle of Cardigan..by Scalado. 1847 Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. Jan., Assaults, scaladoes, ambuscadoes,..became the Captain's chief delight. |
2. = scalade n. 2.
| 1600 Fairfax Tasso xi. xxxiv, Adrastus..boldly gan a strong scalado reare. 1824 J. H. Wiffen Tasso xi. xxxix, Some raise scalados, nor to mount decline. |