monkey board

monkey board
 n.— «Everything was icy and visibility was restricted to the bottom of the derrick—far below the monkey board, the little platform where I was to work.» —“The Tyranny of the Should” by Karl Laiho in Kuwait Toronto Star (Can.) June 22, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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