ladder-ways

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• -ways

  ·- A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used inter...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• ways

  for way, distance, space. A very common vulgarism. It's only a little ways down to the village.--Ma...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• ways

  Balks laid down for rolling weights along. ♦ Launching-ways. Two parallel platforms of solid timbe...

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• Ladder

  ·vi That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to emine...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Ladder

  Occurs only once, in the account of Jacob's vision (Gen. 28:12). ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• ladder

  To go up the ladder to rest; to be hanged. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ladder

  The accommodation ladder is a sort of light staircase occasionally fixed on the gangway. It is furni...

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• By-ways

  Only in Judg. 5:6 and Ps. 125:5; literally "winding or twisted roads." The margin has "crooked ways....

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• bulge-ways

  Otherwise bilge-ways (which see). ...

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• ground-ways

  The large blocks and thick planks which support the cradle on which a ship is launched. Also, the fo...

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• launching-ways

  In ship-building, the bed of timber placed on the incline under the bottom of a ship; otherwise call...

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• loover-ways

  Battens or boards placed at a certain angle, so as to admit air, but not wet; a kind of Venetian-bli...

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• spoon-ways

  In slave-ships, stowing the poor wretches so closely locked together, that it is difficult to move w...

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• water-ways

  Certain deck-planks which are wrought next to the timbers; they serve to connect the sides of a ship...

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• horse ladder

  A piece of Wiltshire wit, which consists in sending some raw lad, or simpleton, to a neighbouring fa...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• louse ladder

  A stitch fallen in a stocking. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• after-ladder

  leads to captain's and officers' quarters, and only used by officers. ...

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• bowsprit-ladder

  Skids over the bowsprit from the beak-head in some ships, to enable men to run out upon the bowsprit...

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• companion-ladder

  Denotes the ladder by which the officers ascend to, and descend from, the quarter-deck. ...

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• gallery-ladder

  Synonymous with stern-ladder. ...

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• jacob's ladder

  The assemblage of shakes and short fractures, rising one above another, in a defective single-tree s...

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• ladie's ladder

  Shrouds rattled too closely. ...

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• quarter-ladder

  From the quarter-deck to the poop. ...

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• rope-ladder

  Such as hangs over the stern, to enable men to go into boats, &c. ...

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• salmon-ladder

  A short trough placed suitably in any fall where the water is tolerably deep, leaving a narrow troug...

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• accommodation-ladder

  See side-ladder ...

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• side-ladder

  , or accommodation-ladder. A complete staircase structure used in harbour by most large ships. ...

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• stern-ladder

  Made of ropes with wooden steps, for getting in and out of the boats astern. ...

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• ways and means

  The committee of 'ways and means,' in legislation, is a committee to whom is intrusted the considera...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.