ladderway

Etymology

From ladder + way.

ladderway means the shaft or passage enclosing a ladder or connected by ladders. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

noun

The shaft or passage enclosing a ladder or connected by ladders.“Having spaced the beams of the upper deck according to the disposition of the beams below, the ladderways should be so contrived, that in ships of war there should be one next abaft the fore hatchway, which is a single ladderway[…]”