siege ladder
Fortress assault climber
A siege ladder is a portable ladder used by attacking forces to scale defensive walls during a siege.
Unlike ordinary ladders, siege ladders were typically wider to allow soldiers to climb side by side, and often featured hooks at the top to grip battlements: Defenders pushed the siege ladders away as attackers scrambled up.
The term appears mainly in historical and fantasy contexts.
- scalingClimbing or resizing
- castleFortified medieval residence
- assaultViolent offensive act
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- medieval warfareCombat from the Middle Ages
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Heated fat for warfare
fortification · battlement · rampart · parapet · defensive wall
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Heavy beam for breaching
tunnel · sapping · undermining · ram · breach
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