0 a piece of equipment with steps for climbing up and down that can stand on its own or be folded for carrying: --
1 a piece of equipment for climbing up and down that can stand on its own or be folded for storage --
Falls include dropping from a standing position, or from exposed positions such as those on ladders or stepladders.
These were made-to-order for a fee by local craftsmen who would wait for wealthy visitors near the cave armed with tools, stepladders and templates.
The tour resumed its normal stepladder format the following year.
Under this arrangement, only the top four seeds made it to the television finals, instead of five, with the traditional stepladder format.
That was called the stepladder.
Many people, when they get to a certain age, can no longer climb up a stepladder or on to a chair to take down mucky nets.
There is no stepladder, no hope and no future.
Pointing to the dangers, he said that the balconies were a "stepladder to oblivion".