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/skˈeɪlɪŋ lˈædər/ Listen

Scaling ladder

noun

A ladder used to scale walls (as in an attack).

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"Scaling ladder" Quotes from Famous Books

... Canopus shone bright, and all creatures to sleep were dight whilst the Creator veiled them with the veil of night. Then he took his drawn sword in his right and his grappling hook in his left and, repairing to the Caliph's sitting-saloon planted his scaling ladder and cast his grapnel on to the side of the terrace-roof; then, raising the trap-door, let himself down into the saloon, where he found the eunuchs asleep. He drugged them with hemp-fumes;[FN93] and, taking the Caliph's dress; dagger, rosary, kerchief, signet-ring ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

... written that letter; he wished he could have it back again; for down the vista of the future he caught a glimpse of the inexorable laws of the world. He guessed that nothing succeeds like success, and it cost him something to step down from the first rung of the scaling ladder by which he meant to reach and storm the heights above. Pictures of his quiet and simple life rose before him, pictures fair with the brightest colors of blossoming love. There was David; what a genius David had—David who had helped ...

— Two Poets - Lost Illusions Part I • Honore de Balzac

Words linked to "Scaling ladder" : ladder