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Plural of ladle

regular plural

The plural of ladle is ladles.

Forms of ladle

Singularladle /ˈleɪ.dəl/
Pluralladles
Countablecountable

Ladles in a sentence

  • 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

Meaning of ladle

  1. noun A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.
  2. noun A container used in a foundry or steel mill to transport and pour out molten metal.
  3. noun The float or paddle on a mill wheel.

Full definition of ladle

Questions about the plural of ladle

What is the plural of ladle?
The plural of ladle is ladles.
Is ladle countable?
Ladle is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ladle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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