A boat has a ladder that
has six rungs; each rung is one foot apart.
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.
Jacob's ladder: a ladder with
missing rungs
and big distances apart!
Whatever they were, the sons stood
several rungs
down the social ladder from the elite.
Margaret fairlie
reached the very highest rungs
of the academic ladder as the first woman to hold a professorial chair in scotland.
Eleven years in the graveyard of english football a
few rungs
above hackney marshes fodder is not nearly good enough.
I believe we
used rungs
9 " long by ¾ " dia. at 11 " centers.
However, we can say that the
first rungs
of this ladder are those which are most suitable for us.
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