scaling ladder

1. 1.

   a ladder used to scale walls (as in an attack)

   Broaderladder

Questions about scaling ladder

What does scaling ladder mean?

scaling ladder means "a ladder used to scale walls (as in an attack)".

Is scaling ladder a common word?

scaling ladder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.