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ladder back
noun
- a chair back having a number of horizontal slats between uprights.
ladder back
noun
- a type of chair in which the back is constructed of horizontal slats between two uprights
Word History and Origins
Origin of ladder back1
Example Sentences
“Remember that when we’re exploring the heavier material of our lives — whether it’s generational trauma, whether it’s our own wounds, whether it’s a political rage — you can’t go down to the bottom of the well unless you have a ladder back out,” she says.
After that, you go to a practical assessment day with five different tests where you use all the different kit; simulate putting a ladder back on a truck, climbing a ladder, as well as doing things like taking your equipment apart and putting it back together - stuff you've never seen in your life.
The festival organiser said people in the industry wanted to get their "first foot on the ladder back to work".
She said homelessness also results in “literally taking years off of people’s lives and setting them on this downward trajectory that has no ladder back up.”
When he attempted to climb the ladder back onto the boat, he fell backward into the water.
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