scaling ladder

English

Noun

scaling ladder (plural scaling ladders)

1. A ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 13:

     Those who survived were forced to carry the Mongols' long scaling ladders up to the very walls of the fortress, while others were made to erect their siege engines under heavy fire.

Translations

a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification

• Bulgarian: обсадна стълба f (obsadna stǎlba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雲梯 / 云梯 (zh) (yúntī)

• Finnish: piiritystikkaat
• Irish: dréimire dreapadóireachta m
• Japanese: 雲梯 (ja) (うんてい, untei)