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n. The shaft or passage enclosing a ladder.
Usage examples of "ladderway".
Sidling a wild glance at the menacing sea, Miss Daventry clung to the gunwale with the tenacity of a squid, then lunged toward the belowdecks ladderway.
He made for the forward ladderway when he heard word being passed that dinner was available on the upper gundeck for the starboard watch.
After a moment he started forward, carefully made his way down the ladderway to the gundeck, and limped to a central spot forward of the mainmast.
Somewhere ladderways led to bone-walled crypts that went gods knew how deep.
We were standing by the gratings abaft the mainmast, and at that moment a stout elderly man, in a uniform much like Bligh's, came purring up the ladderway.
She heard the clanking of boots on the Cardassian metal ladderway, as the dean and his top lieutenants reclimbed back to the ready-room.
Johnnie and the guard were within a few feet of one another, and the armored ladderway surrounding them acted as a wave guide.