LADLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ladle mean? 

• LADLE (noun)
  The noun LADLE has 1 sense:

1. a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another

  Familiarity information: LADLE used as a noun is very rare.

• LADLE (verb)
  The verb LADLE has 2 senses:

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

2. remove with or as if with a ladle

  Familiarity information: LADLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LADLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("ladle" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Meronyms (parts of "ladle"):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ladle"):

dipper (a ladle that has a cup with a long handle)

scoop (a large ladle)

soup ladle (a ladle for serving soup)

Derivation:

ladle (put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle)

• LADLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ladle    ... he / she / it ladles   
Past simple: ladled   
Past participle: ladled   
-ing form: ladling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

ladle soup into the bowl

Hypernyms (to "ladle" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The women ladle water into the bowl

Derivation:

ladle (a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove with or as if with a ladle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lade; laden; ladle

Context example:

ladle the water out of the bowl

Hypernyms (to "ladle" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ladle"):

slop (ladle clumsily)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

“That is Wat the limner,” quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maria could stand it no longer, and hurried away to the stove, where she filled a quart-bowl with soup, putting into it the lion's share of chopped meat and vegetables which her ladle scraped from the bottom of the pot.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mary did look up, and she did stare at me: the ladle with which she was basting a pair of chickens roasting at the fire, did for some three minutes hang suspended in air; and for the same space of time John's knives also had rest from the polishing process: but Mary, bending again over the roast, said only— Have you, Miss? Well, for sure!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Two of the company, who were dressed in the weather-stained green doublet of foresters, lifted the big pot off the fire, and a third, with a huge pewter ladle, served out a portion of steaming collops to each guest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)