Anagrams of: STEPLADDERS

• a folding portable ladder hinged at the top

• A manner of walking with the legs spread out.

• To spread apart (the legs).

• To spread apart the legs of (someone or something).

• To lie, move, or stand with legs spread.

• someone who is no longer alive

• well in the past; former

• dead

• (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance

• (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster

• very drunk

• A manner of walking with the legs spread out.

• To spread apart (the legs).

• To spread apart the legs of (someone or something).

• To lie, move, or stand with legs spread.

• someone paddling a canoe

• someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

• an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs

• a support or foundation

• a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)

• an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)

• prey on or hunt for

• be earlier in time; go back further

• come before

• establish something as being earlier relative to something else