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plural ladles
A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle. quotations examples
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.
1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles
(metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal. examples
The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board. examples
An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon. examples
A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot. examples
third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled
(transitive) To pour or serve something with a ladle. examples