ladder truck

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   a fire engine carrying ladders

   Synonymsaerial ladder truck

   Broaderfire engine

Questions about ladder truck

What does ladder truck mean?

ladder truck means "a fire engine carrying ladders".

What is another word for ladder truck?

Close synonyms include aerial ladder truck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ladder truck a common word?

ladder truck 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.