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61stairway — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. stairs, steps, staircase; moving stairway, escalator; companionway, ladder. See ascent …
62ladder — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. stairway, step stool, steps, scale; see stairs . Ladders include: stepladder, rope ladder, ship s ladder, stern ladder, accommodation ladder, fireman s scaling ladder, extension ladder, companionway, collapsing ladder,… …
63Nautical Terms — Ahoy, mateys! This be a fair and true listing of words having to do with ships and sailing, 225 of them in all. These terms come mainly from the great age of sailing ships, the 16th to 18th centuries, and almost all hail from the two great… …
64companion ladder — noun a companionway …
65hall — n 1. corridor, gallery, way, passageway, passage, hallway, breezeway, Naut. companionway. 2. lobby, foyer, vestibule, threshold, entry. 3. auditorium, lecture room, classroom, school room; meetinghouse, assembly or convention hall; theater,… …
66ladder — n 1. stairs, stairway, stepladder, library steps, folding ladder; companionway, rigging, scaling ladder, fire escape; All Naut. jack ladder, pilot ladder, Jacob s ladder. 2. ascent, upward mobility; hierarchy, scale, stratification, social order… …
67passageway — n hall, corridor, hallway, gallery; arcade, gangway, ambulatory, mall; alleyway, aisle, passage, areaway, breezeway; portico, colonnade, covered way, cloister, pergola, loggia, peristyle; portal, port, entrance, exit, entryway, doorway, threshold …
68companion — [13] Etymologically, your companion is someone who shares your ‘bread’ with you. It comes, via Old French compaignon, from Vulgar Latin *compāniō, a compound noun formed from Latin com ‘with’ and pānis ‘bread’. The Old French stem compaign also… …
69hybrid — [hī′brid] n. [L hybrida, offspring of mixed parentage] 1. the offspring produced by crossing two individuals of unlike genetic constitution; specif., the offspring of two animals or plants of different races, varieties, species, etc. 2. anything… …
