Ladler
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who ladles.
"[…] by the time I was twelve I was my mother’s little helper—the filler of pies, the ladler of jelly, the person to whom Mother snapped, ‘Hurry up, I’ll need to put the tops on those pies.’"
- 2 Someone who transports molten metal in a ladle.
Example
More examples"[…] by the time I was twelve I was my mother’s little helper—the filler of pies, the ladler of jelly, the person to whom Mother snapped, ‘Hurry up, I’ll need to put the tops on those pies.’"
Etymology
From ladle + -er.
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