échelle, n.f., ladder; ladder-staircase; scale; degree; (nav.) quarter-deck ladder. — brisée; folding-ladder. — de siège; scaling-ladder. — de corde; rope-ladder. — de meunier; trap-ladder. — à incendie; fire-ladder, fire-escape. — de jardin ou de tapissier; pair of steps. — de dunette; poop-ladder. — de commandement; accommodation-ladder. — campanaire; bell-founder’s diapason. —s du Levant; sea-ports in the Levant. Faire la courte —; to mount upon one another’s shoulders. Faire à quelqu’un la courte —; to give a lift to any one; to help any one through. Sentir l’—; to deserve hanging. Après lui il faut tirer l’—; he has left nothing to be done, or you cannot go one better.
échelon (ésh-lon), n.m., round, rung, step (of a ladder); step, stepping-stone; (milit.) echelon. Descendre d’un —; to come down a step. Marcher en —s; to march in echelons.
échelonner, v.a., to draw up in echelons; to arrange according to gradation. — un corps d’infanterie; to draw up a body of infantry in echelons.
s’échelonner, v.r., to be graduated; to rise gradually; to be arranged or drawn up in echelons.
échenal or écheneau, n.m., gutter, basin.
*échenillage, n.m., clearing, ridding of caterpillars.
*écheniller (ésh-ni-), v.a., to rid plants of caterpillars.
*échenilleur, n.m., caterpillar-destroyer; (ornith.) caterpillar-eater.
*échenilloir, n.m., averruncator.
écheno. V. échenal.