? Obs. [f. LADDER sb.] trans. To scale with a ladder; to furnish with a ladder or with ladders. Also absol.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (1728), 191. His friends came rushing forward to ladder the walls.
1582–8. Hist. Jas. VI. (1804), 173. The men of Leith … looking for na uther thing bot … to haue ladderit and win the hous.
1643. Session Rec., in Hist. Brechin (1867), 232. To Alexander Talbert for laddering the church 3s. 4d.
1665. J. Webb, Stone-Heng (1725), 188. They came from their Stations … by Planks Laid from His unto their Stones, and otherwise they could not, without laddring up and down.
