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medieval startups for storming walls, where the second guy up was the optimist
means A scaling ladder is a long ladder, often hooked or wheeled, used to climb over the walls of a fortress or castle during a siege.
from From 'scale,' the verb meaning 'to climb,' which comes through Old French 'escaler' from Latin 'scala,' a ladder or flight of steps — itself rooted in 'scandere,' to climb. That same Latin 'scala' climbs into 'escalator,' 'scale' (as in scaling a mountain), and the musical 'scale' you ascend note by note. So a scaling ladder is, quite literally, a climbing-ladder — the redundancy baked right in by centuries of borrowing.
- siege staple
- used in warfare for over 4,000 years
- first up
- called a forlorn hope for grim reasons
- defenders' reply
- forked poles shoved ladders backward off walls
- roman fix
- engineers calculated height to avoid being too short
- folding tech
- some collapsed for easier battlefield transport
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