salmon ladder

noun

A fish ladder built for salmon.

Meanings

nounsalmon ladder (plural salmon ladders)

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. exerciseA 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.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see

Translations

German Lachstreppe
  • Lachstreppefish ladder built for salmon
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Chicago

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