ROPE LADDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rope ladder mean? 

• ROPE LADDER (noun)
  The noun ROPE LADDER has 1 sense:

1. a ladder with side pieces of rope

  Familiarity information: ROPE LADDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROPE LADDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ladder with side pieces of rope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rope ladder" is a kind of...):

ladder (steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down)

 Context examples 

Roderigo produced a rope ladder, with five steps to it, threw up one end, and invited Zara to descend.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Instantly, Sir What's-his-name recovered himself, pitched the tyrant out of the window, and turned to join the lady, victorious, but with a bump on his brow, found the door locked, tore up the curtains, made a rope ladder, got halfway down when the ladder broke, and he went headfirst into the moat, sixty feet below.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)