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noun

Ladle n.

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."

(Founding) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.

The float of a mill wheel; called also ladle board.

(Gun.)

(a)

An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.

(b)

A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

Ladle wood (Bot.), the wood of a South African tree (Cassine Colpoon), used for carving.

verb

Ladle v. t. (past & past part. ladled; pres. part. ladling) To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.

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"Ladle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bagobo story collected by Miss Benedict (JAFL 26 : 21), where a ladle becomes a monkey's tail; also an African saga in Daehnhardt (3 ...

— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler

... Bignonias, Echites, and Allamandas, with yellow ones, scrambled and tumbled everywhere; and, if not just there, then often enough elsewhere, might be seen a single Aristolochia scrambling up a low tree, from which hung, amid round leaves, huge flowers shaped like a great helmet with a ladle at the lower lip, a foot or more across, of purplish colour, spotted like a toad, and about as fragrant ...

— At Last • Charles Kingsley

... old peasant woman in short skirt, heavy shoes and big apron, her arms bared to the elbow, a saucepan in one hand, a ladle in the other. She beamed ...

— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit

... of our friend Caleb, towards whom, for reasons to which the reader is no stranger, he nourished a decided resentment. He raised his riding-wand against the elder matron, but she stood firm, collected in herself, and undauntedly brandished the iron ladle with which she had just been "flambing" (Anglice, basting) the roast of mutton. Her weapon was certainly the better, and her arm not the weakest of the two; so that Gilbert thought it safest to turn short off upon his wife, who had by this time hatched a sort of hysterical whine, ...

— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott

... a turkey down to roast, dredge it with flour; then put about an ounce of butter into a basting-ladle, and as it melts, baste ...

— The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual • William Kitchiner

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