A surname.

plural of Ladd

(Scotland, Northumbria) A small boy.

A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or rounds acting as steps).

To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder. / (chiefly firefighting) To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder. / Of a knitted garment: to develop a ladder as a result of a broken thread.

A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.

(firefighting) A mechanically-extendable ladder mounted to a fire engine.

A ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification.

(nautical) Either of two ladders leading from the raised quarterdeck of a sailing ship to the upper deck.

plural of ladder