ladle

---

Pronunciation

• (British, America) IPA: /ˈleɪ.dəl/

Noun

ladle (plural ladles)

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

   • 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.

Synonyms

• (deep-bowled spoon) dipper

Translations

• French: louche cuillère à pot, poche, pochon
• German: Kelle, Suppenkelle, Schöpfkelle, Schöpflöffel
• Italian: mestolo, ramaiolo
• Portuguese: concha
• Russian: поло́вник
• Spanish: cucharón, cazo

Translations

• French: poche
• German: Gießpfanne
• Italian: siviera

Verb

ladle (ladles, present participle ladling; past ladled, past participle ladled)

1. (transitive) To pour or serve something with a ladle.

   One man ladled molten steel into the shot sleeve.

Translations

• Spanish: vertir

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002