aerial ladder

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noun

an extensible ladder used for reaching heights, especially from a hook-and-ladder truck.

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Words nearby aerial ladder

aeri-, Aeria, aerial, aerialist, aeriality, aerial ladder, aerial mine, aerial perspective, aerial photograph, aerial pingpong, aerial root

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How to use aerial ladder in a sentence

What the people of Mosul now fear most is aerial bombardment of their own city.
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Then when we arrive at his flat in Shepherd's Bush following the escape, perhaps there ought to be remnants of the ladder.
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An aerial image shows what appears to be a spa, roiling water apparently carrying no nasty connotations.
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The crime-fighting penguins, says the trailer, are “masters of the skies, espionage, and aerial assault.”
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And even that aerial effort is being shortchanged, military insiders tell The Daily Beast.
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Some of the alarm returned, however, when the creature attempted to climb up by his own ladder.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
It was no sooner accomplished, than Ripperda was on the top of the ladder, and in a few seconds by his side.
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No, he was a hard-headed Scotchman, full of ability and work, and as a railway manager stood at the top of the ladder.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
He said they would be unable to raise the heavy ladder to the tower window; and that was a fact.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
After he had caught her, they were carried up a bamboo ladder by their friends, and sprinkled with water out of a cocoanut shell.
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British Dictionary definitions for aerial ladder

aerial ladder

noun US and Canadian

a power-operated extending ladder mounted on a fire engineAlso called: turntable ladder

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