Ladle

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  • noun. A long-handled spoon with a deep bowl for serving liquids.
  • transitive verb. To lift out or serve with a long-handled spoon.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A long-handled dish-shaped utensil for dipping or conveying liquids.
  • noun. A similarly shaped instrument for drawing a charge from a cannon.
  • noun. The float-board of a mill-wheel; a ladle-board.
  • noun. In glass manufacturing, same as cuvette, 2.
  • To lift or dip with a ladle; lade.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
  • noun. A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
  • noun. The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
  • noun. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
  • noun. the wood of a South African tree (Cassine Colpoon), used for carving.
  • transitive verb. To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
  • noun. A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal
  • verb. to serve something with a ladle
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle
  • verb. remove with or as if with a ladle
  • noun. a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
  • Word Usage
    "The soup-ladle is my delight, and I could almost take the dear old coffee-pot to bed with me ...."
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    lay  place  pose  position  put  
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    cradle  
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    bail  bail  bale  bucket  calabash  
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    ladled  ladles  ladling