ladder

A ladder is a a piece of stage lighting hardware used to hang lights above one another, without using a boom stand. It looks like a small ladder made out of pipe that has a c-clamp at the top. Lights are clamped to the horizontal rungs.

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Lad"der (?), n. [OE. laddre, AS. hlder, hldder; akin to OFries. hladder, OHG.leitara, G. leiter, and from the root of E. lean, v. (). See Lean, v. i., and cf. Climax.]

1.

A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.

Some the engines play, And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. Dryden.

2.

That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder. Shak.

Fish ladder. See under Fish. -- Ladder beetle Zool., an American leaf beetle (Chrysomela scalaris). The elytra are silvery white, striped and spotted with green; the under wings are rose-colored. It feeds upon the linden tree. -- Ladder handle, an iron rail at the side of a vertical fixed ladder, to grasp with the hand in climbing. -- Ladder shell Zool., a spiral marine shell of the genus Scalaria. See Scalaria.

 

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