accommodation ladder

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   (nautical) a portable ladder hung over the side of a vessel to give access to small boats alongside

   Broadersea ladder

   seafaring

Questions about accommodation ladder

What does accommodation ladder mean?

accommodation ladder means "(nautical) a portable ladder hung over the side of a vessel to give access to small boats alongside".

Is accommodation ladder a common word?

accommodation ladder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.