ladle

From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), [1][2] equivalent to lade +‎ -le (“agent suffix”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.dəl/
• Rhymes: -eɪdəl

ladle (plural ladles)

1. A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
   • Boyle

     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.

2. (metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
3. The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
4. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
5. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

• (deep-bowled spoon): dipper

• frying ladle

ladle (third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled)

1. (transitive) to serve something with a ladle

• Adell, Della