accommodation ladder

accommodation ladder definition

accommodation ladder

a portable set of steps held in place temporarily along a ship's side for access to or from a small boat or pier

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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