ladder-back

plural ladder-backs

1. alternativeAlternative form of ladderback.

   Clissett was a "badger" -a man who made chairs from green wood who had been making handsome ladder-backs since the 1850s.

   2003, Kevin P. Rodel, Jonathan Binzen, Arts & Crafts Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary, page 39

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   Moreover, American woods were used; where Yorkshire chairs had been chiefly of oak, the Philadelphia ladder-backs were of maple and sometimes hickory.

   1964, John Joseph Stoudt, Early Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts

   The Woody chairs are fashioned in simple mountain style with comfortably curved two-slat backs; they make four-slat rockers, children's high chairs, low play-chairs, ladder-backs, and chairs with woven insets between the posts;

   2014, Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel, page 238