What is "ladderlike"

Usage examples of "ladderlike".

From here, steep, ladderlike stairs led down again, evidence of at least one habitable level lower than this one.

Rough wooden or tin partitions, slatted floors, and rudimentary ladderlike stairs had been attached as best they could be to the original bare steel strutting and concrete buttresses of the monorail station.

He said a few words in an unfamiliar language, and a ladderlike gangplank was lifted up and stretched across to the log.

Resaime, on his other side, eyed the short ladderlike stairway that led up to a solid metal door at the end of the hall.

Ayla noticed people scurrying up a ladderlike connection between the dock and the boat.

Nikilo climbed the ladderlike stairs and soon the ancient floorboards overhead creaked with his footsteps.

The stairs were steep, almost ladderlike, and they led down into darkness.

Lord Simon had vanished more ladderlike steps led up to the smaller top deck.

The stairs were steep, almost ladderlike, and they lei down into darkness.

A narrow, ladderlike stair of handholds had been niched into the rock, and a few feet from the foot of this ascent a cleft, wide and tall enough for a man to enter, opened in the wall.

A brig had but two masts, and each mast had a platform halfway up called a top, reachable by clambering up a ladderlike web of shrouds.

The opened trapdoor revealed a steep set of ladderlike steps, and cold and moist air washed over her as she descended.

The metal legs that supported the water tank had small cross bars, not visible from a distance, but up close you could see they formed a ladderlike structure.

Holding the narrow tube safely in his teeth, the little boy slid down the ladderlike web of rope, hopped onto the deck, and went dodging and skipping toward the stern.

Metal ladderlike stairs climbed the far wall, leading to a square wooden hatch in the ceiling.