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A pair of vertical steel rods—which had presumably been installed at one of the Beverly Hills locations, for reinforcement—extended past the wolf-bear’s shoulders, like a rungless ladder.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015

The horse walked away; the barrel, filled at a water-hole cut in the ice, ran up an inclined, rungless ladder to the top of the tank, where it dumped its contents automatically.

From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)