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salmon ladder

salmon ladder noun: a fish ladder built for salmon.

Noun

salmon ladder (plural salmon ladders)

  1. A fish ladder built for salmon.
    • Thousands of visitors also descend each year on the Pitlochry Dam and Salmon Ladder that were built nearby as part of the Tummel hydroelectric power scheme from the late 1940s.2019 December 4, Paul Stephen, “At the heart of the community”, in Rail, page 58
  2. A physical-training exercise where the exerciser moves a crossbeam to progressively higher positions on a pair of posts while hanging from it with his arms.
  3. The apparatus used for this exercise.

Forms of salmon ladder

pluralsalmon ladders

Questions about salmon ladder

What does salmon ladder mean?
Salmon ladder means a fish ladder built for salmon.
What part of speech is salmon ladder?
Salmon ladder is a noun.
What is the plural of salmon ladder?
The plural of salmon ladder is salmon ladders.

Words near salmon ladder in the dictionary

  1. Salmon Creek
  2. salmon gum mushroom
  3. salmon gum mushrooms
  4. salmon killer
  5. salmon killers
  6. salmon ladder
  7. salmon ladders
  8. salmon peel
  9. salmon peels
  10. salmon pink
  11. salmon pinks

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