ladder /ladˈər/

1. A piece of equipment, generally portable, with horizontal rungs between two vertical supports, used for going up and down
2. Anything of similar form or pattern, such as a run in knitwear where the breaking of a thread gives an appearance of rungs
3. An arrangement which enables fish to pass around dams, weirs, etc (fish-ladder or salmon-ladder)
4. A means of attaining a higher status (figurative)

1. To cause a ladder to appear in (tights, etc)
2. To provide with a ladder (rare)
3. To scale with a ladder (rare)

Of knitwear, fabric, etc, to develop a ladder

laddˈered or laddˈery adjective

laddˈer-back noun

A chair with a back consisting of several horizontal bars between two long uprights (also adjective)

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