laddery

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a ladder (frame with steps for climbing).

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Meanings

adjectiveladdery (comparative more laddery, superlative most 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

Origin

From ladder + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

laddery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laddery

MLA

“laddery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laddery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “laddery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laddery.

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