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fish ladder en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A structure built on or around dams or locks to facilitate the migration of fish.
   • We came to the base of an abnormally long perpendicular fish ladder, stretching up, up into shadow so overwhelmingly deep it seemed as if a pit had been inverted over our heads. 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:

Forms

Synonyms

salmon ladder · fishway · fish pass · fish steps

Translations (11)

nl vistrap (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · no fisketrapp (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · da fisketrappe (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · gv aarey vraddan (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · es vía para pejes (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · fr passe à poissons (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · fi kalaporras (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · sv fisktrappa (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · no laksetrapp (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · es escalera ictícola (structure to facilitate migration of fish) · de Fischtreppe (structure to facilitate migration of fish)