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ladder
noun
1 a piece of equipment which is used for climbing up or down, usually made of wood, metal or rope, and consisting of a set of parallel horizontal rungs or steps set at right angles between two long vertical supports. See also fish ladder.
2 chiefly Brit a long narrow flaw, especially in a stocking, tights or other knitted garment, where a row of stitches has broken. Also called run.
3 a hierarchical or graded route of advancement or progress the social ladder .
4 anything that is like a ladder in arrangement, eg a list of names of players in a competition on which names are moved up or down depending on whether the players win or lose.
verb (laddered , laddering ) chiefly Brit said of stockings, etc:
a to cause a ladder to appear in;
b intr to develop a ladder.
[Anglo-Saxon hlæder ]
laddered adjective said of stockings, etc: having a ladder or ladders.
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