sea steps

1. 1.

   (nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard

   Synonymssea ladder

   Broaderladder

   Narroweraccommodation ladder

   seafaring

Questions about sea steps

What does sea steps mean?

sea steps means "(nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard".

What is another word for sea steps?

Close synonyms include sea ladder. 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 sea steps a common word?

sea steps is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.