scaling

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: scal=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

scaling, a. 

•  Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

scaling

air attack, air raid, air strike, boarding, breakup, crack-up, diffusion, disintegration, dispersal, disruption, dissolution, escalade, exfoliation, fire raid, foray, fragmentation, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, raid, razzia, revolution, saturation raid, scattering, shattering, shuttle raid