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nouna row of unravelled stitchestype of:
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verbcome unraveled or undone as if by snagging
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"he climbed the career ladder"nounascending stages by which somebody or something can progress
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nounsteps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down
Definition that contains ladder
- spoke one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder
- scale take by attacking with scaling ladders
- scale climb up by means of a ladder
- jellyfish large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
- rung one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder
- gall a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
- bile a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
- escalade an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification)
- cyst a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)
- ureter either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder