ladle
nounEtymology
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”), equivalent to lade + -le (“agent suffix”).
Definitions
A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil 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 afterwards take off with ladles.
A container used in a foundry or steel mill to transport and pour out molten metal.
The float or paddle on a mill wheel.
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An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
- The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.
A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
To pour or serve something with a ladle.
- One worker ladled molten steel into the shot sleeve.
- The host ladled the soup into her guests' bowls.
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Derived
beladle, bull ladle, frying ladle, ladleful, ladle furnace, ladleman, ladler, spoodle, toddy ladle
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at ladle. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at ladle. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at ladle
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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