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.

plural of ladder

A pair of ladders

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ladder

(idiomatic, Britain) On a property ladder, owning property.

(of tights, stockings, etc) Having a ladder in them.

simple past tense and past participle of ladder

present participle and gerund of ladder

(agriculture, countable) A process of soil compaction that serves to break up clods and level a field.