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Ladle
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- 1 A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.
"When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen afterwards take off with ladles."
- 2 a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another wordnet
- 3 A container used in a foundry or steel mill to transport and pour out molten metal.
- 4 The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
- 5 An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
"The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength."
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- 6 A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
- 1 To pour or serve something with a ladle. transitive
"One worker ladled molten steel into the shot sleeve."
- 2 remove with or as if with a ladle wordnet
- 3 put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), equivalent to lade + -le (“agent suffix”).
From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), equivalent to lade + -le (“agent suffix”).
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