rope ladder

English

Noun

rope ladder (plural rope ladders)

1. A flexible ladder, constructed of rope, often with wooden rungs, suspended from the top.

   Alternative form: ropeladder

   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     Jem had outgrown the treehouse, but helped Dill and me construct a new rope ladder for it

Translations

flexible ladder

• Czech: provazový žebřík m
• Finnish: köysitikkaat pl
• French: échelle de corde (fr) f
• German: Strickleiter (de) f, Fallreep (de) n
• Greek: ανεμόσκαλα (el) f (anemóskala)
• Hebrew: סֻלַּם חֲבָלִים (he) m (sulam khavalim)
• Hungarian: kötéllétra (hu)
• Irish: dréimire rópa m
• Italian: biscaglina (it) f
• Norman: noeud d'ièrrîn m (Jersey), ièrrîn m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: taustige m

  Nynorsk: taustige m

• Plautdietsch: Stranklada f
• Russian: фалреп (ru) m (falrep)
• Swedish: repstege (sv) c
• Turkish: ip merdiven (tr)

See also

• Jacob's ladder

Further reading

• Ladder § Flexible ladders on Wikipedia.Wikipedia