ladderlike

English

Etymology

ladder +‎ -like

Adjective

ladderlike (comparative more ladderlike, superlative most ladderlike)

1. Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).
   • 1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244:

     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.

   • 1989, Elizabeth F Neufeld, Victor Ginsburg, Complex Carbohydrates:

     The fastest moving components of capsular polysaccharides can usually be separated as distinct bands in a ladderlike pattern by gel electrophoresis...