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ladle

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1. ladle - Noun

2. ladle - Verb

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A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.

A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.

The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.

A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.

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Religion lives not by the force and aid of dogma, but because it is ingrained in the nature of man. ...the moulds have been broken and reconstructed over and over again, but the molten ore abides in the ladle of humanity. John Tyndall

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards. Jane Bryant Quinn

When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from. Neil Gaiman

No man can perfectly empty a pot with a ladle. South African Proverb

ladle the water out of the bowl Source: Internet

ladle soup into the bowl Source: Internet

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