aerial ladder

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   mechanically extendible ladder; used on a fire truck

   Broaderextension ladder

Questions about aerial ladder

What does aerial ladder mean?

aerial ladder means "mechanically extendible ladder; used on a fire truck".

Is aerial ladder a common word?

aerial 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.