A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, / Glide under the green wave.
A device to measure mass or weight.
After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet...
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To climb to the top of.
Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.