salmon ladder

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salmon ladder

noun salmon ladders

  1. A fish ladder built for salmon. Thousands of visitors also descend each year on the Pitlochry Dam and Salmon Ladder that were built nearby as part of the Tummel hydroelectric power scheme from the late 1940s.
  2. A physical-training exercise where the exerciser moves a crossbeam to progressively higher positions on a pair of posts while hanging from it with his arms.
  3. The apparatus used for this exercise.

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noun fish ladder built for salmon

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@misc{salmon_ladder_2026,
  title = {salmon ladder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/salmon%20ladder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}