a flight of stairs or a ladder for lowering over the side of a ship for access to and from a small boat.
The property ladder, without the implication of necessarily owning the place where one lives.
A trestle bridge.
A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.