ladler
ladler noun: one who ladles.
Noun
ladler (plural ladlers)
- One who ladles.
- […] by the time I was twelve I was my mother’s little helper—the filler of pies, the ladler of jelly, the person to whom Mother snapped, ‘Hurry up, I’ll need to put the tops on those pies.’2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 23, in Small Island, London: Review, page 240
- Someone who transports molten metal in a ladle.
Forms of ladler
| plural | ladlers |
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Origin of ladler
From ladle + -er.
Questions about ladler
- What does ladler mean?
- Ladler means one who ladles.
- What part of speech is ladler?
- Ladler is a noun.
- What is the plural of ladler?
- The plural of ladler is ladlers.
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