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Tap any rung for its meaning.
Two stepping stones: the A (rung 1, for clack) and the L (rung 4, for stalk) — each borrowed to keep a rung a real word, then given back before the end. There may be several par routes — the census above shows which ones climbers actually took.
To make the short, low sound a hen makes.
Cluck is an imitative word, meant to echo the actual sound a chicken makes. Similar sound-based words appear in other languages for the same noise. It has been used in English since at least the early modern period.
Full entry on Wiktionary ↗A device used for cooking or heating a room.
Stove probably comes from a Low German or Dutch word meaning a heated room or bath. It entered English in the medieval period. Over time the meaning narrowed from a heated room to the appliance that produces the heat.
Full entry on Wiktionary ↗Definitions give each word’s most common meaning — the full entries live at Wiktionary.