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ladle

ˈleɪdəl
WordNet
Stoneware soup ladle, with round ban and handle ending in embossed leaf work. The spoon is decorated with a green rim and gold Greek band.
Stoneware soup ladle, with round ban and handle ending in embossed leaf work. The spoon is decorated with a green rim and gold Greek band.
  1. (v) ladle
    remove with or as if with a ladle "ladle the water out of the bowl"
  2. (v) ladle
    put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle "ladle soup into the bowl"
  3. (n) ladle
    a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
Illustrations
Owl, standing on one leg, dressed as a soldier, ladle in a hat. Eight birds in the sky. Eight-line text in French above the image.
Owl, standing on one leg, dressed as a soldier, ladle in a hat. Eight birds in the sky. Eight-line text in French above the image.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Ladle
    A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping. "When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles ."
  2. Ladle
    (Gun) A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
  3. Ladle
    (Founding) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
  4. Ladle
    (Gun) An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
  5. Ladle
    The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) ladle
    A long-handled dish-shaped utensil for dipping or conveying liquids. Ladles for domestic uses are made in many forms and of a variety of materials. One form of foundry-ladle of iron, technically called a shank, for conveying molten metal from the furnace to the mold, has opposite handles for two men, one of them furnished with a cross-bar at the end for tilting the ladle to pour out the metal. For very large work such foundry-ladles are moved by a crane.
  2. (n) ladle
    A similarly shaped instrument for drawing a charge from a cannon.
  3. (n) ladle
    The float-board of a mill-wheel; a ladle-board.
  4. (n) ladle
    In glass manufacturing, same as cuvette, 2.
  5. ladle
    To lift or dip with a ladle; lade.
  6. (n) ladle
    A burghal duty charged on grain, meal, and flour brought to market for sale; the proceeds obtained from that duty: from the dish or vessel used to measure the grain or meal.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Ladle
    lād′l a large spoon for lifting out liquid from a vessel: the float-board of a mill-wheel: an instrument for drawing the charge from a cannon
  2. (v.t) Ladle
    to lift with a ladle
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. hlædel, fr. hladan, to load, drain. See Lade (v. t.)

Usage in the news

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies will supply a 300-metric-ton twin-ladle furnace to ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH. industrialheating.com

Reality TV, food and Las Vegas go hand-in-whisk-and- ladle . lasvegassun.com

Organizers of Limestone Ladle know the need is there. tmnews.com

Silver Ladle Doles Out a Family Legacy. citybeat.com

Tim Lambrinides opened Silver Ladle on Sixth Street back in March. citybeat.com

Paul Ryan and the Soup Kitchen: A Ladle into the Lies. esquire.com

Divide the peaches and nectarines among 4 soup dishes and ladle the fruit soup on top. cnn.com

We've almost weathered the '80s revival without anybody rear-ending the morons stalled at the intersection listening to Spandau Ballet, but it's official: The ladle is scraping barrel when it comes to that decade's nostalgia. miaminewtimes.com

Smelting plant's hydraulic ladle can't pour the liquid gold. hydraulicspneumatics.com

He'll do a demonstration at the Covington Farmers Market on April 4, and ladle out tastes. nola.com

Their T-shirt features Nike's signature swoosh transformed into a ladle. appeal-democrat.com

Tlingit Oil Bowl & Ladle. pbs.org

Reality TV, food and Las Vegas go hand-in- whisk -and-ladle. lasvegassun.com

You can use one to puree cooked ingredients right in the pot so you don't have to ladle them into a countertop blender in batches. goodhousekeeping.com

Ladle the gumbo into the bowls and serve with rice. foodandwine.com

Usage in literature

When she realized this, Zella was no longer afraid but continued to ladle out the honey until she had secured all that was in the tree. "Rinkitink in Oz" by L. Frank Baum

Those who toil unceasingly for preferment, and toil in vain, are said to have been born with a wooden ladle. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

Like the wife that ne'er cries for the ladle till the pat rins o'er. "The Proverbs of Scotland" by Alexander Hislop

Juliet dropped her ladle and pulled open the oven door. "The Indifference of Juliet" by Grace S. Richmond

A long array of furnaces extends up the street; over each is a stew-pan, and behind each a cook armed with an enormous ladle. "The Dodge Club" by James De Mille

The ladle with which they distribute their food is also of cocoanut shell. "My Friends the Savages" by Giovanni Battista Cerruti

Suddenly the alarm bell sounded loudly, and in rushed the Bear-mother, with the jam-ladle in her hand, her hair almost erect with terror. "Soap-Bubble Stories" by Fanny Barry

All their drugs would have had no more effect than a ladleful of pea-soup. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844" by Various

I can ladle out money the year round through a bank wicket and not be shy a cent at the end of the year. "The Ranch at the Wolverine" by B. M. Bower

She was very tired of ladling it in each little mouth. "A Modern Cinderella" by Amanda M. Douglas

Usage in poetry
Last night
when the ship entered the harbor
Gioconda's foot kissed the land.
Shanghai the soup, she the ladle,
she searched high and low for her SI-YA-U.
The innocent infant lying in the cradle,
Shot itself dead with a silver ladle;
And the maid-servant, not knowing what she did,
Strangled herself with the saucepan lid.