An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
LADDERS
Noun
ladders
plural of ladder
Noun
ladders pl (plural only)
A pair of ladders
Verb
ladders
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ladder
Anagrams
• Aldreds, Saddler, raddles, saddler
Source: Wiktionary
LADDER
Lad"der, n. Etym: [OE. laddre, AS. hl, hl; akin to OFries. hladder, OHG.leitara, G. leiter, and from the root of E. lean, v. (Lean, v. i., and cf. Climax.]
1. A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps. Some the engines play, And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. Dryden.
2. That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence. Lowliness is young ambition's ladder. Shak. Fish ladder. See under Fish.
РLadder beetle (Zo̦l.), an American leaf beetle (Chrysomela scalaris). The elytra are silvery white, striped and spotted with green; the under wings are rose-colored. It feeds upon the linden tree.
– Ladder handle, an iron rail at the side of a vertical fixed ladder, to grasp with the hand in climbing.
РLadder shell (Zo̦l.), a spiral marine shell of the genus Scalaria. See Scalaria.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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