Escalade: alternatives and connections

A furious onset or attack.

A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly.

A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the…

the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…

Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a…

a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack

A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as,…

The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the e…

a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from…

A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.

To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.