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ladderways

ladderways is the plural of ladderway.

Meaning of ladderway

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

Questions about ladderways

What is ladderways the plural of?
Ladderways is the plural of ladderway.

Words near ladderways in the dictionary

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

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