accommodation ladder | (nautical) a portable ladder hung over the side of a vessel to give access to small boats alongside |
aerial ladder | mechanically extendible ladder, used on a fire truck |
articulated ladder | a ladder consisting of segments (usually four) that are held together by joints that can lock in place |
bucket pail | a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top |
bucket seat | a low single seat as in cars or planes |
bucket shop | (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket |
dinner pail dinner bucket | a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner |
dredging bucket | a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed |
extension ladder | a ladder whose length can be extended |
fish ladder | a series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam |
Jacob's ladder jack ladder pilot ladder | (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps |
ladder | steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs, for climbing up or down |
ladder-back | the backrest of a chair that consists of two uprights with connecting slats |
ladder-back ladder-back chair | a chair with a ladder-back |
ladder truck aerial ladder truck | a fire engine carrying ladders |
monkey ladder | a light ladder to the monkey bridge on a ship |
power shovel excavator digger shovel | a machine for excavating |
rope ladder | a ladder with side pieces of rope |
scaling ladder | a ladder used to scale walls (as in an attack) |
sea ladder sea steps | (nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard |
step ladder stepladder | a folding portable ladder hinged at the top |
wine bucket wine cooler | a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine |
run ladder ravel | a row of unravelled stitches, she got a run in her stocking |
bucket shop | an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm |
excavator | a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying |
Jacob's ladder Greek valerian charity Polemonium caeruleum Polemonium van-bruntiae Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae | pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers |
northern Jacob's ladder Polemonium boreale | perennial erect herb with white flowers, circumboreal |
bucket bucketful | the quantity contained in a bucket |
ladder | ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress, he climbed the career ladder |
ladder run | come unraveled or undone as if by snagging, Her nylons were running |
die decease perish go exit pass away expire pass b kick the bucket cash in one's chips buy the farm conk give-up the ghost drop dead pop off choke croak snuff it | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life, She died from cancer, The children perished in the fire, The patient went peacefully, The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of |
bucket | carry in a bucket |
bucket | put into a bucket |
c rush hotfoot hasten hie speed race pelt along rush along cannonball along bucket along belt along step on it | move fast, He rushed down the hall to receive his guests, The cars raced down the street |
runproof ladder-proof run-resistant | (of hosiery) resistant to runs or (in Britain) ladders |