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stern ladder

noun as in accommodation ladder

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The people then thanking them for their great kindness, with tears in the eyes of all, hastened down the stern ladder.

I never saw one of her officers or men except when there were passengers going in the boat, to or from the stern-ladder.

In the end, they swung me into her by a rope (for they had no stern ladder), and then they cut me adrift.

A small rope, which is hitched to the middle of every step of a stern-ladder.

At last we got under the counter, and I climbed up by the stern ladder.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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