The Collaborative International Dictionary
ladder-back \ladder-back\ n. a chair with a ladder-back[2].
Syn: ladder-back chair.
2. a chair backrest consisting of 2 uprights with several connecting slats.
WordNet
n. a chair with a ladder-back [syn: ladder-back chair]
a chair backrest consisting of 2 uprights with connecting slats
Usage examples of "ladder-back".
He filled her mug, set the soot-stained coffeepot on the counter, and then straddled a ladder-back chair.
Jenny took Ann and me was brim full of charming simplicity--the floors were natural pine, the chairs were cane-seated and ladder-backed, the curtains at the window nooks were yellowed lace.
Homemade quilts were draped across a couple of ladder-back chairs, while others were neatly folded and stacked on the woven straw bottoms of the chairs.
So she sat in the ladder-backed chair facing the stone hearth, her hands folded demurely in her lap, and listened wide-eyed to his diatribe against Satan's servants and black magic.
There was one ladder-back chair by the door and a washstand with a china jug and basin.
Sighing, Min took Logain's arm and led him to the table, sat him down on a rough bench and took a shaky ladder-back chair herself.
Sighing, Mm took Logain's arm and led him to the table, sat him down on a rough bench and took a shaky ladder-back chair herself.
The sink made an enormous crashing noise as it crushed a ladder-back chair before thumping heavily on the wooden floor.
Reluctantly, Paul let his field of vision widen to include the other side of the room, where Anita sat on a ladder-back chair before the cherry breakfront that concealed the laundry console.
It was as small and spartan as a monk's cell, furnished with nothing more than a ladder-back chair, a table and a four-post bed with a fatigued mattress.
His ladder-back chair, the only other piece of furniture in the room, appeared rickety, but someone had strengthened it with rawhide lashings.
A crack of displaced air heralded the sudden appearance of a ladder-back chair in the far corner of the dining room.
He had a washstand of his very own, a ladder-back chair that was not too unsteady, a sturdy stool, and a table big enough to hold a plate and cup and a pair of decent brass lamps.
The sofa had been taken away to be recovered, and we sat on either side of the fireplace, she in the Salem rocker, I in a Windsor ladder-back.