| 单词 | fish ladder | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasfish ladder  a.  Applied to things more or less resembling a ladder. Often with qualifying words, as cheese ladder n. at cheese n.1 Compounds 2,  cooper's ladder,  paring ladder (see quots.);  fish ladder (see fish n.1 Compounds 2b). ΚΠ 1688    R. Holme Acad. Armory  iii. 318/2  				The paring Ladder, or Coopers Ladder..By the help of this all Barrel Staves or Boards are held fast and sure while the Work-man is paring or shaving them. 1688    R. Holme Acad. Armory  iii. 339/2  				The Cart Lathers are the Crooked peeces set over the Cart wheels to keepe Hay and Straw loaden off them. 1851    Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 376  				Scotch cart..with ladders complete, so as to be used as a dung or harvest cart. 1875    E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.  				Ladder, a notched cleat or stick in a bookcase, for supporting shelves. 1883    Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. 		(ed. 4)	 90  				Two Salmon Ladders, One Jumping Ladder, One Swimming Ladder. 1888    Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin.  				Ladder, a series of mud buckets which are carried up and down in an oblique direction, for emptying and refilling in dredging operations. 1890    Wesleyan Methodist's Mag. Mar. 162  				A woven-ladder tape for Venetian blinds, in lieu of hand-made ladders. 1892    Daily News 25 Jan. 3/3  				The flowers are formed into ruches, which trim the skirt and are carried up the sides, with a ladder of ribbons between the lines. 1902    Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 9/2  				Navigation is provided for by a ‘ladder’ of four locks, each 260 ft. long by 32 ft. wide. < as lemmas | 
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