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laddery en · ADJ

Etymology

From ladder + -y.

Meanings

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:

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