attic ladder

attic ladder

English

An attic ladder

Noun

attic ladder (countable and uncountable, plural attic ladders)

1. (countable) A usually retractable ladder used to access an attic through an attic door.
   • 2016 July 14, Joel Golby, “Judging the Labour Party Leadership Candidates Based on Their Wikipedia Pictures Alone”, in Vice‎:

     You make it as far as the last step on the attic ladder then pull short, the air cold in your lungs, the blood still in your heart.

Synonyms

• disappearing stairs
• (UK): loft ladder

Translations

climbing tool to access an attic

Dutch: vlieringtrap m German: Bodentreppe f Hebrew: סולם לעליית גג‎ m, סולם מתקפל לגג‎ m Hungarian: padlásfeljáró Italian: scala retrattile f

Further reading

• attic ladder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia