Definitions
come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English ladder, laddre; from Old English hlǣder, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaidriju, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrijō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlóydʰrom, from *ḱley- (“to lean”).
Used in a sentence
“Newcastle had won both their previous fixtures in 2011 but were terribly disappointing at Broadhall Way against opponents 73 places below them in the footballing ladder.”
“You've got a huge ladder in your stockings. I've got a spare pair in my bag, come to the Ladies and you can change.”
“By means of repeated bifurcations, [Carl] Linnaeus provided a five-tier botanic hierarchy. He laddered the plant kingdom downward from classes to orders, genera, species, and varieties.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues
01“Climber's tool”6 letters
02“Climbing frame with rungs”6 letters
03“Climbing tool”6 letters
04“Climbing tool with rungs”6 letters
05“Runged climbing tool”6 letters
06“Rungs for climbing”6 letters
07“Tool for climbing”6 letters
08“Climbing frame”6 letters
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