Ladderway
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ladderway is a noun meaning The shaft or passage enclosing a ladder or connected by ladders.
Meaning
The shaft or passage enclosing a ladder or connected by ladders.
Example Sentences
It rose in tiers, a maze of intricate wiring inset with black crystal, and surrounded by ladderways and balconies.
Digger lunged past me, his shotgun arm extended down the ladderway. One-handed, he fired twice blindly. The shotgun blasts were answered by a scream.
Having spaced the beams of the upper deck according to the disposition of the beams below, the ladderways should be so contrived, that in ships of war there should be one next abaft the fore hatchway, which is a single ladderway[…]
Word Forms
- ladderways
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stairwell, shaft, ladder, aven, shaftway, lightwell.
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