monkey ladder

1. 1.

   a light ladder to the monkey bridge on a ship

   Broaderladder

Questions about monkey ladder

What does monkey ladder mean?

monkey ladder means "a light ladder to the monkey bridge on a ship".

Is monkey ladder a common word?

monkey 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.