ladie's ladder

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• Ladies

  ·pl of <<Lady>>. ...

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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...

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• Ladder

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

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• ladder

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

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• ladder

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

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• Ladies' eardrops

  ·- The small-flowered Fuchsia (F. coccinea), and other closely related species. ...

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• Ladies' tresses

  ·- A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers ...

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• ladies' traces

  (Neottia tortillis.) The popular name in the Southern States for an herb.--Williams's Florida. ...

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• horse ladder

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

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• louse ladder

  A stitch fallen in a stocking. ...

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• 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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• ladder-ways

  The hatchways, scuttles or other openings in the decks, wherein the ladders are placed. ...

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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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• Lords and Ladies

  ·- The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with ...

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