Word Finder - rungs

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A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.

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A crosspiece between legs of a chair.

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A position in a hierarchy.

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the lowest rung of the society

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A floor timber in a ship.

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One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

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One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.

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One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Are any ladder rungs missing, broken, or loose?

In most cultures, shepherds occupy the lower rungs of society's ladder.

In most cultures, shepherds occupy the lower rungs of society 's ladder.

Metal rungs set in one side of the shaft were the obvious means of access.

They can hop, stand on one foot, and negotiate the rungs of a jungle gym.

They are arranged so they line up like ladder rungs, one above the other spatially when worn.

The boards constituting the top of the bench seem long enough for side of what Molly proposed but sawing the remaining boards for rungs would prove arduous.

Neither of us was proficient at using a saw and we'd managed only two rungs when exhaustion caught up with us and the light faded for permanently.

The colour of sea-water as it is seen on board ship is most readily determined by comparison with the tints of Forel's xanthometer or colour scale, which consists of a series of glass tubes fixed like the rungs of a ladder in a frame and filled with a mixture of blue and yellow liquids in varying proportions.

Ladders are not a good idea for young budgies, as they can get stuck between the rungs.

In ancient cosmology, the planetary spheres ascended from Earth to Heaven like the rungs of a ladder.

The ribbons are connected by rungs which are formed by two bases, one attached to each ribbon.

Each section is fitted with built-in climbing rungs in one face, removing the need for a separate ladder.

It means fixing the broken rungs on the ladder from poverty to wealth.

A boat has a ladder that has six rungs; each rung is one foot apart.

Margaret Fairlie reached the very highest rungs of the academic ladder as the first woman to hold a professorial chair in Scotland.

I believe we used rungs 9 " long by ¾ " dia. at 11 " centers.

Platform Access 40mm diameter wooden rungs, Rock climbing face.

The bottom rungs are rope to keep the box size to a minimum.

Whatever they were, the Sons stood several rungs down the social ladder from the elite.

Eleven years in the graveyard of English football a few rungs above Hackney Marshes fodder is not nearly good enough.

However, we can say that the first rungs of this ladder are those which are most suitable for us.

Sometimes the DNA ladder rungs get mixed up or even lost.

Nevertheless, they are still seriously underrepresented overall and even more so when we look at the higher rungs of the career ladder.

A very small section of DNA showing the double helix structure linked by bases, like the rungs on a twisted ladder.

Always hold on to the rungs of a ladder, never slide your hands up or down the stiles.

Obviously that practice fails the " always have a backup " test, when I fall off the rungs of best-practice !

Taken out by Dave Sweeting on the swaging method of attaching ladder rungs to the wire rope.

They are frequently shaky, which frightens some children, or the rungs are so far apart that children's short legs cannot easily step from one to another.

However, as you travel upward along the rungs of fashion retailers, you'll notice that the denim styles at Gap Kids are a bit thicker and feature more of the standard twill denim.

Climb the ladder and stop short of the three top rungs.