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The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair. All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise. Dryden.

A round; a step of a ladder; a rung. Duppa.

One of the rounds of a ladder.

leback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. Crabb. -- Salmon trout. (Zoöl.) (a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles th…

Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.

ls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.

Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.

Resembling a ladder; formed with steps. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. [Obs.]

Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.

e to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies. Bladder senna. (Bot.) See under Bladder. -- Wild senna (Bot.), the Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.

Halyards; 101 Spanker Vangs; 102 Spanker Boom; 103 Spanker Boom Topping Lift; 104 Jacob's Ladder, or Stern Ladder; 105 Spanker Sheet; 106 Cutwater; 107 Starboard Bow; 108 Starboard Beam; 109 Water Line; 110 Starboard Quarter; 111 Rudder.

A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

unds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.

A rung, or round, of a ladder.

The round of a ladder. [R.] I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves. Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels).

One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.] To climd by the rungs and the stalks. Chaucer.

One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

A ladder. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [Written also stey.]