Ladderlike
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).
"How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa."
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More examples"How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa."
Etymology
From ladder + -like.