Ladler

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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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