Jacob's Ladder
Sea Terms
A ladder with rope sides and wooden rungs, used for getting into the lower rigging on vessels with very high bulwarks, and for getting up to the jack cross-trees--the ladder hanging abaft the mast.
A ladder with rope sides and wooden rungs, used for getting into the lower rigging on vessels with very high bulwarks, and for getting up to the jack cross-trees--the ladder hanging abaft the mast.