"ladder-back" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964, John Joseph Stoudt, Early Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts",
          "text": "Moreover, American woods were used; where Yorkshire chairs had been chiefly of oak, the Philadelphia ladder-backs were of maple and sometimes hickory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Kevin P. Rodel, Jonathan Binzen, Arts & Crafts Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary, page 39",
          "text": "Clissett was a \"badger\" -a man who made chairs from green wood who had been making handsome ladder-backs since the 1850s.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel, page 238",
          "text": "The Woody chairs are fashioned in simple mountain style with comfortably curved two-slat backs; they make four-slat rockers, children's high chairs, low play-chairs, ladder-backs, and chairs with woven insets between the posts;",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of ladderback"
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  "word": "ladder-back"
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      "form": "ladder-backs",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "ladder-back (plural ladder-backs)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "ladderback"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964, John Joseph Stoudt, Early Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts",
          "text": "Moreover, American woods were used; where Yorkshire chairs had been chiefly of oak, the Philadelphia ladder-backs were of maple and sometimes hickory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Kevin P. Rodel, Jonathan Binzen, Arts & Crafts Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary, page 39",
          "text": "Clissett was a \"badger\" -a man who made chairs from green wood who had been making handsome ladder-backs since the 1850s.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel, page 238",
          "text": "The Woody chairs are fashioned in simple mountain style with comfortably curved two-slat backs; they make four-slat rockers, children's high chairs, low play-chairs, ladder-backs, and chairs with woven insets between the posts;",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of ladderback"
      ],
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  "word": "ladder-back"
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