ladle
/ˈleɪ.dəl/
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Australia/ˈlæɪ.dəl/
ladle noun: a deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.
Noun
ladle (plural ladles)
- 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.1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles
- Synonyms:
- dipper
- A container used in a foundry or steel mill to transport and pour out molten metal.
- The float or paddle on a mill wheel.
- Synonyms:
- ladle board
- 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.1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 6
- A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
Verb
ladle (third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled)
ladle meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
ladle in Hindi
- deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle
- कलछी kalchī, करछा karchā, डोई ḍoī
ladle in Tamil
- deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle
- கரண்டி karaṇṭi
ladle in Urdu
- deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle
- کَرْچھا karchā, ڈوئی ḍoī
ladle in Bengali
- deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle
- হাতা hata
More languagesFewer languages
- ladle in Telugu
- అగప agapa, గుంటగరిటె guṇṭagariṭe, గరిటె gariṭe
- ladle in Malayalam
- കയിൽ kayil, കോരിക kōrika
- ladle in Kannada
- ಸೌಟು, ಸಟ್ಟುಗ, ಸಟ್ಟು, ಸಟುಕ
- ladle in Punjabi
- ڈوئی ḍo'ī
- ladle in Gujarati
- કડછો kaḍcho, ડોઈ ḍoī
- ladle in Odia
- ଖଜା khajā
- ladle in Sanskrit
- दर्वि darvi
- ladle in Tagalog
- sandok, kutsaron
- ladle in Arabic
- مِغْرَفَة miḡrafa
- ladle in Malay
- senduk
- ladle in Persian
- مَلاقِه malâqe, کَفچِه kafče, چَمچِه čamče
- ladle in Thai
- ทัพพี táp-pii
- ladle in Vietnamese
- môi, giá, muôi, vá
- ladle in Myanmar
- ယောက် yauk, မှုတ် hmut
- Dhivehi
- ސަމުސާ samusā
Examples of ladle in a sentence
- The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
- “You oyster gravy, Massa Sam,” said Ella, ladling a couple of spoonfuls over the rice.
- He thought he might have been ladling it on a trifle heavy.
Synonyms of ladle
Forms of ladle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ladles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ladles |
| present participle | ladling |
| past participle | ladled |
| past | ladled |
Origin of 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”), equivalent to lade + -le (“agent suffix”).
Words formed from ladle
Phrases with ladle
Words that rhyme with ladle
Questions about ladle
- What does ladle mean?
- Ladle means a deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.
- What is ladle in Hindi?
- Ladle in Hindi is कलछी (kalchī), करछा (karchā), डोई (ḍoī). See Ladle meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ladle?
- Ladle can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce ladle?
- Ladle is pronounced /ˈleɪ.dəl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ladle?
- The plural of ladle is ladles.
Words near ladle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ladle (page history and authors); అగప (Telugu) (page history and authors); ladle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଖଜା (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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