Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
- 2transitive verb
A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
- 3transitive verb
The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
- 4transitive verb
An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
- 5transitive verb
A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7noun
a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
- 8verb
remove with or as if with a ladle
"ladle the water out of the bowl"
- 9verb
put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle
"ladle soup into the bowl"
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