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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stepladder
noun
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▪ Each slice was glue-sprayed and bundled up a pair of stepladders to be stuck into place.
▪ In the next scene, Scottie tries to climb a stepladder.
▪ On the landing he noticed a piece of paper lying on the floor between the stepladder and the wall.
▪ The Volvo, whose windows wind down to reveal plush red curtains, is surrounded by stepladders.
▪ Two bags of cement were parked behind the fence, and a stepladder there, leading to the top.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stepladder

Stepladder \Step"lad`der\, n. A portable set of steps.

Wiktionary
stepladder

n. (alternative form of step ladder English)

WordNet
stepladder

n. a folding portable ladder hinged at the top [syn: step ladder]

Usage examples of "stepladder".

On the floor, over and around the two chairs and the large ironing board, were the smaller board, the stepladder, the washboiler, two hammers, a lot of nails, many bread, cake, and pie pans, and some knives and forks.

It was tricky work laying out the guidelines on the walls with the yardstick, first the horizontals, moving the stepladder across from left to right three feet at a hop, then the verticals, easy enough at the bottom but flirting more and more dangerously with wobbliness as she drew nearer to the top and was forced to go up on tiptoe.

Wednesday the skies had cleared and Kate, standing at the very top of the stepladder and stencilling at the apex of the rafters, paused, blowing her hair upwards, easing her shoulders.

Going into the main building, Conrad had pointed out a number of photographers who were standing on stepladders to get a view of the party.

Nobody in Particular, a dumpy corsetless creature with a brickhead husband and stepladder brats and a pot of stew on the stove.

Militiamen were rushing to their mobilization stations, air-raid wardens in their new armbands and helmets were standing on stepladders to tape over the streetlights, and everybody and his Aunt Sally were milling around talking to each other.

They began at once to load them aboard the greenhouse, clumping up and down the stepladders to the varnished deck.

They decided Andy had fallen off the stepladder while getting a chandelier down from the ceiling.

Storage in Bensonhurst, finding high-volume customers for items such as cigarettes, TVs, VCRs, stepladders, dresses, frozen orange juice.

The bus idles empty for a very long timethe post-event scrums and standups last longer than the whole THM didand then when the BS1 regulars finally do pile in they're all extremely busy trying to type and phone and file, and all the techs have to get their SX and DVS Digital Editors out (the CBS machine's being held steady on their cameraman's little stepladder in the aisle because all the tables and the ERPP are full) and help their producers find and time the clip of Mrs.

An hour later, perched precariously on top of the stepladder, eyes squinted nearly shut against the thin November sun, Claire razored masking tape off the windows.

Social workers rated only a rung or two above paedophiles on the Farmer's moral stepladder.

As Bink turned on him again, a set of long winter underwear formed, and several tattered comic books, and a wooden stepladder, a stink bomb, and a gross of magic writing quills.

Coming in from the sunshine Qwilleran could see nothing at first, but he blinked until the scene took shape: tables loaded with haphazard piles of dingy books, floor-to-ceiling shelves jammed with grayish bindings and invisible titles, a shaky wooden stepladder, and a smoky-gray Persian cat walking across a table of old magazines, waving his plume of a taillike a feather duster.

She ignored the stepladder, stood on tiptoe, and reached up to open the drawer that held Wens most prized Tang dynasty pieces.