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the only tool that demands you trust each step before seeing where it ends
means A ladder is a frame of two long side rails joined by evenly spaced rungs, used for climbing up or down to reach heights.
from From Old English 'hlæder,' meaning a ladder or step, rooted in a Germanic family of words for climbing or leaning structures — kin to Dutch 'leer' and German 'Leiter.' It traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to lean' (also the source, distantly, of 'lean' itself), which fits perfectly: a ladder is the original leaning thing.
- ancient art
- Painted on a Spanish cave wall 10,000 years ago
- fall risk
- Cause hundreds of US deaths annually, mostly home jobs
- superstition
- Walking under one defied Egyptian sacred triangles
- firefighting
- Aerial ladder trucks reach over 100 feet up
- genetics
- DNA itself is a twisted molecular ladder
jacob's ladder — biblical structure in genesis where angels ascended and descended between heaven and earth
social ladder — metaphorical hierarchy in societies like victorian england or modern class systems
ladder tournament — ranking system used in competitive games like starcraft and chess where players climb positions