ladder
/ˈlæd.ɚ/ verb C2- To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
- To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
- Of a knitted garment: to develop a ladder as a result of a broken thread. · Oh damn it, I've laddered my tights!
He/she/it ladders · Past laddered · Past participle laddered · -ing form laddering
Verb forms
- Base form
- ladder
- He/she/it
- ladders
- Past
- laddered
- Past participle
- laddered
- -ing form
- laddering
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Dantès was occupied in arranging this piece of wood when he heard Faria, who had remained in Edmond’s cell for the purpose of cutting a peg to secure their rope-ladder, call to him in a tone indicative of great suffering.
Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.
It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.
“I will make a ladder,” said the Tin Woodman, “for we certainly must climb over the wall.”
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