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ladderway

ladderway noun: the shaft or passage enclosing a ladder or connected by ladders.

Noun

ladderway (plural ladderways)

  1. The shaft or passage enclosing a ladder or connected by ladders.
    • Having spaced the beams of the upper deck according to the disposition of the beams below, the ladderways should be so contrived, that in ships of war there should be one next abaft the fore hatchway, which is a single ladderway[…]1805, David Steel, The shipwright's vade-mecum, page 208
    • It rose in tiers, a maze of intricate wiring inset with black crystal, and surrounded by ladderways and balconies.1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 84

Forms of ladderway

pluralladderways

Origin of ladderway

From ladder + way.

Questions about ladderway

What does ladderway mean?
Ladderway means the shaft or passage enclosing a ladder or connected by ladders.
What part of speech is ladderway?
Ladderway is a noun.
What is the plural of ladderway?
The plural of ladderway is ladderways.

Words near ladderway in the dictionary

  1. laddermen
  2. ladderproof
  3. ladders
  4. laddertron
  5. laddertrons
  6. ladderway
  7. ladderways
  8. ladderwise
  9. laddery
  10. laddess
  11. laddesses

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