ladle

ladle is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
2. transitive verb. A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
3. transitive verb. The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
4. transitive verb. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
5. transitive verb. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. noun. a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
8. verb. remove with or as if with a ladle

   "ladle the water out of the bowl"

   Synonyms: lade, laden

9. verb. put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle

   "ladle soup into the bowl"

Synonyms

lade, laden

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ladle:

dalle, della

Common word forms

ladled, ladler, ladles, ladling, ladleful

Words from these letters

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