a. [f. LADDER sb. + -ED2.] Furnished with a ladder; † of a rope, made into a ladder.

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1608.  Middleton, Fam. Love, I. ii. Attempt not to ascend My chamber-window by a ladder’d rope.

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187[?].  Stevenson, Child’s Gard. Verses (1895), 81. He [the sun] Into the laddered hayloft smiles.

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1892.  Ld. Lytton, King Poppy, iv. 83. Their ladder’d scaffolds swarm’d, as high in heaven.

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