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rope ladder

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Noun1.rope ladder - a ladder with side pieces of roperope ladder - a ladder with side pieces of rope    
ladder - steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down
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rope ladder nscala di corda


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Nothing to do but hitch your rope ladder to the battlements, shin down it, break your leg in the moat -- because a rope ladder is nineteen foot too short, you know -- and there's your horses and your trusty vassles, and they scoop you up and fling you across a saddle, and away you go to your native Langudoc, or Navarre, or wherever it is.
In a very few minutes he was joined by half a dozen sailors, dragging a rope ladder.
When Aramis, seizing the rope ladder, walked straight up to the commander, with a firm step, looked at him earnestly, made a sign to him with his hand, a mysterious and unknown sign at sight of which the officer turned pale, trembled, and bowed his head, the sailors were profoundly astonished.
 
 
 
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