attic ladder

English

An attic ladder

Noun

attic ladder (plural attic ladders)

1. (countable) A usually retractable ladder used to access an attic through an attic door.
   • 2016 July 14, Joel Golby, “Judging the Labour Party Leadership Candidates Based on Their Wikipedia Pictures Alone”, in Vice‎^[1]:

     You make it as far as the last step on the attic ladder then pull short, the air cold in your lungs, the blood still in your heart.

Synonyms

• disappearing stairs
• (UK): loft ladder

Translations

climbing tool to access an attic

• Dutch: vlieringtrap m
• German: Bodentreppe f, Dachgeschossleiter f, Speichertreppe f, Dachbodenleiter f
• Hebrew: סולם לעליית גג m, סולם מתקפל לגג m
• Hungarian: padlásfeljáró (hu)
• Italian: scala retrattile f

Further reading

• attic ladder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia