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.
O ladder at the hayloft door,
Into the laddered hayloft smiles.
She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: “Where’s the other ladder?—Why, I hadn’t to bring but one; Bill’s got the other—Bill!
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