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Main track of yard from which individual tracks lead off. Also called a lead. (See yard)
Markings on Ship's ladders which indicate one way traffic in the event of Action Stations.
Sideburns.
Collar a duster up the ladder is Black−American slang for to climb stairs.
A rope ladder, sometimes with wooden steps built in for ease of use.
step of a ladder
A ladder against the side of the ship to provide access when in harbour but not alongside the jetty or if the ship is at anchor.
A ladder leading from one deck to another.
n chutes and ladders. The simple board game in which you roll dice and, depending on which square you land on, you can go whizzing further up the board on ladders or slide down the board on snakes.
Louse ladder was th century British slang for a dropped stitch in a stocking.
The shout of a seaman that has a priority to use a ladder or a narrow passageway, and wishes for the current occupants to move aside quickly.
 “Can’t see a hole in a ladder,†said of anyone who is intoxicated. It was once said that a man was never properly drunk until he could not lie down without holding, could not see a hole through a ladder, or went to the pump to light his pipe.
n run. In the sense of a “ladder in your tights” being the British equivalent of a “run in your pantyhose.” In all other circumstances, this word means exactly the same in the U.K. as it does in the U.S.
On board a warship, most "stairs" being narrow and nearly vertical, are called ladders.
Rope ladder that was used to climb aboard ships
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A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
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One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
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Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.
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One of the rounds of a ladder.
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Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.
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Rung (of a ladder).
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One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
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A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
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Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.
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The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair.
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Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.
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A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
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A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
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To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.
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A ladder.
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A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
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A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
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The rung or round of a ladder.
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A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
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That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence.
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