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Companion Ladder

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The ladder leading from the poop to the main deck. The “companion way” is the staircase to the cabin. (Dana: Seaman’s Manual.)

⁂ The staircase from the deck to the cabin.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Commodity of Brown Paper (A)
Commodore
Common Pleas
Common Prayer
Common Sense
Commoner
Commons
Commons in Gross
Commonwealths (Ideal)
Companion Ladder
Companions of Jehu
Comparisons are Odorous
Complementary Colours
Complexion
Compline
Compostella
Compte rendu
Comrade
Comrades
Comus