Scaled
[skeld]
Definition
(adj.) (used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing .
Checker: Phyllis--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Scale
(a.) Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.
(a.) Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.
(a.) Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.
Checker: Willa
Examples
- Peepy had scaled his crib, and crept down in his bed-gown and cap, and was so cold that his teeth were chattering as if he had cut them all. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From the shining heights she has scaled and taken, she is never absent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- By the way, said he to Joseph Harrison, you found some place, I understand, where the fellow scaled the fence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Willa