"scaling ladder" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scaling ladders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scaling ladder (plural scaling ladders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 13",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification."
      ],
      "id": "en-scaling_ladder-en-noun-E1Wjwtof",
      "links": [
        [
          "ladder",
          "ladder"
        ],
        [
          "scaling",
          "scale#Etymology 1"
        ],
        [
          "besiege",
          "besiege"
        ],
        [
          "fortification",
          "fortification"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "obsadna stǎlba",
          "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "обсадна стълба"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
          "word": "雲梯"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yúntī",
          "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
          "word": "云梯"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
          "word": "piiritystikkaat"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dréimire dreapadóireachta"
        },
        {
          "alt": "うんてい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "untei",
          "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
          "word": "雲梯"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scaling ladder"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scaling ladders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scaling ladder (plural scaling ladders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 13",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ladder",
          "ladder"
        ],
        [
          "scaling",
          "scale#Etymology 1"
        ],
        [
          "besiege",
          "besiege"
        ],
        [
          "fortification",
          "fortification"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obsadna stǎlba",
      "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "обсадна стълба"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
      "word": "雲梯"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yúntī",
      "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
      "word": "云梯"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
      "word": "piiritystikkaat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dréimire dreapadóireachta"
    },
    {
      "alt": "うんてい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "untei",
      "sense": "a ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification",
      "word": "雲梯"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scaling ladder"
}