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laddery

laddery adjective: resembling or characteristic of a ladder (frame with steps for climbing).

Adjective

laddery (comparative more laddery, superlative most laddery)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a ladder (frame with steps for climbing).
    • We followed the twain in breathless speed; and, not to be baulked at last after such a walk, ran rapidly down seaward by a long series of hanging terraces, communicating by short flights of abrupt laddery steps […]1852, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 455

Forms of laddery

comparativemore laddery
superlativemost laddery

Origin of laddery

From ladder + -y.

Questions about laddery

What does laddery mean?
Laddery means resembling or characteristic of a ladder (frame with steps for climbing).
What part of speech is laddery?
Laddery is an adjective.

Words near laddery in the dictionary

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

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