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Jacob's ladder

  1. Bible the ladder from earth to heaven that Jacob saw in a dream: Gen. 28:12
  2. a portable ladder used on ships and having, typically, wooden rungs and rope or wire sides
  3. any of several plants (genus Polemonium) of the phlox family, with pinnately compound leaves and small, blue, bell-shaped flowers
  4. carrion flower (sense )

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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