time, like climbing the rungs of a <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span>, until reaching the edge of the board. <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> <span class="searchmatch">mates</span>) (chess) A checkmate pattern in which...
<span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> <span class="searchmatch">mates</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> <span class="searchmatch">mate</span>...
ladder-laced <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> lacing ladderless ladderlike <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> logic <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> lottery ladderman <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> match <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> <span class="searchmatch">Ladder</span> of Jacob <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> of opportunity <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> operator...
back-rank <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> Blind Swine <span class="searchmatch">Mate</span> Boden's <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> check and <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> Cozio's <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> David and Goliath <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> epaulet <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> epaulette <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> fool's <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> <span class="searchmatch">mate</span> scholar's...
English ġefēra (literally “fellow traveler”). Doublet of company. Compare <span class="searchmatch">mate</span>. IPA(key): /kəmˈpænjən/ Hyphenation: com‧pan‧ion Rhymes: -ænjən companion...
stale (plural stales) An upright of a <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span>. A rung in a <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span>; tier. The posts and rungs composing a <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span>. c. 1315, Shoreham Poems, I 49: Þis ilke...
Middle English macche, mecche, from Old English mæċċa, ġemæċċa (“companion, <span class="searchmatch">mate</span>, wife, one suited to another”), from Proto-West Germanic *makkjō, *gamakkjō...
(archaic) The rung of a <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span>. 1739, John Campbell, The Travels and Adventures of Edward Bevan, Esq.: I ascend at one [<span class="searchmatch">ladder</span>] of six hundred and thirty-nine...
Javan tubercle snake Jewnited Snakes joint snake king snake, kingsnake <span class="searchmatch">ladder</span> snake lance snake large-headed water snake leopard snake lined snake lyre...
Employed in the Mines, page 48: "I have to bear my burthen up four traps, or <span class="searchmatch">ladders</span>, before I get to the main road which leads to the pit bottom." 1847, David...