"companion ladder" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "companion ladders",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 87",
          "text": "Just as I got my head above the companion ladder, I felt an indescribably unpleasant sensation, suddenly, as it were, losing the power of breathing […] ."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112",
          "text": "The flat roof proved a great luxury, for we sat on our housetop at night, which we reached by a species of companion-ladder from below, and enjoyed our elevated position immensely.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Either of two ladders leading from the raised quarterdeck of a sailing ship to the upper deck."
      ],
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          "nautical",
          "nautical"
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        [
          "ladder",
          "ladder"
        ],
        [
          "quarterdeck",
          "quarterdeck"
        ],
        [
          "sailing ship",
          "sailing ship"
        ],
        [
          "upper",
          "upper"
        ],
        [
          "deck",
          "deck"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) Either of two ladders leading from the raised quarterdeck of a sailing ship to the upper deck."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "companion ladder"
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        {
          "ref": "1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 87",
          "text": "Just as I got my head above the companion ladder, I felt an indescribably unpleasant sensation, suddenly, as it were, losing the power of breathing […] ."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112",
          "text": "The flat roof proved a great luxury, for we sat on our housetop at night, which we reached by a species of companion-ladder from below, and enjoyed our elevated position immensely.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Either of two ladders leading from the raised quarterdeck of a sailing ship to the upper deck."
      ],
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          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "ladder",
          "ladder"
        ],
        [
          "quarterdeck",
          "quarterdeck"
        ],
        [
          "sailing ship",
          "sailing ship"
        ],
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          "upper",
          "upper"
        ],
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          "deck",
          "deck"
        ]
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        "(nautical) Either of two ladders leading from the raised quarterdeck of a sailing ship to the upper deck."
      ],
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        "nautical",
        "transport"
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