ladle

IPA: ɫˈeɪdʌɫ

A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.
(metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

Examples of "ladle" in Sentences

(rhymes with "ladle"), and it soon lands on one of its four sides.
In this case the Indian name is given in full for the kind of ladle designated, plain ware.
The soup-ladle is my delight, and I could almost take the dear old coffee-pot to bed with me ....
Rest a wide-mouth funnel on top of a jar and ladle in your goodies, leaving at least ¼-inch of head space.
Inside, volunteers man two huge iron cauldrons, scooping out a ladle of boiled white rice into each container.
Men would gather to labor all day and raise a barn for a young family in need; women would cook extra stew to ladle some onto the plate of a hungry neighbor.
She said the ladle was a proper utensil - it just wasn't being used for the purpose it was created, and if I didn't like that fact I didn't have to eat the squash.
At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space.
"When we had satisfied ourselves with the fish, one of the people who came with us from the last village approached, with a kind of ladle in one hand, containing oil, and in the other something that resembled the inner rind of the cocoanut, but of a lighter colour.