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Synonyms for ladle

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for ladle

to take a substance, as liquid, from a container by plunging the hand or a utensil into it

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Synonyms for ladle

a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle

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

remove with or as if with a ladle

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References in classic literature ?
He seized the enormous ladle, which was lying on one of his kettles, and began to stir the boiling liquid with great diligence.
The complaisant Frenchman, after several timid efforts to trust his lips in contact with the howl of the ladle, got a good swallow of the scalding liquid.
Elizabeth turned her head, when they reached the point where they were to descend the mountain, and thought that the slow fires that were glimmering under his enormous kettles, his little brush shelter, covered with pieces of hemlock bark, his gigantic size, as he wielded his ladle with a steady and knowing air, aided by the back-ground of stately trees, with their spouts and troughs, formed, altogether, no unreal picture of human life in its first stages of civilization.
"That is Wat the limner," quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.
Osborne, clutching the ladle, fixing his eyes on her, in a sepulchral tone; and having helped her and the rest, did not speak for a while.
One of the linen chests was open; the silver teapot was unwrapped from its many folds of paper, and the best china was laid out on the top of the closed linen-chest; spoons and skewers and ladles were spread in rows on the shelves; and the poor woman was shaking her head and weeping, with a bitter tension of the mouth, over the mark, "Elizabeth Dodson," on the corner of some tablecloths she held in her lap.
The Magician was stirring all four of these kettles at the same time, two with his hands and two with his feet, to the latter, wooden ladles being strapped, for this man was so very crooked that his legs were as handy as his arms.
I saw iron ladles, pans full of white sand, files with white metal left glittering in their teeth, molds of plaster of Paris, bags containing the same material in powder, a powerful machine with the name and use of which I was theoretically not unacquainted, white metal in a partially-fused state, bottles of aquafortis, dies scattered over a dresser, crucibles, sandpaper, bars of metal, and edged tools in plenty, of the strangest construction.
MorganMMS manufactures ceramic ladle bowls in sizes ranging from small bowls for taking molten metal samples to large bowls for ladling metal into molds.
This fire down ladle heater was built to accommodate ladles ranging from 10-30 tons.
Transporting the ladle from the furnace to the line is a balancing act of speed and safety, some pourers go to extra lengths to ensure the metal in the ladle is ready to solidify into a sound casting, and a good gating system is a precursor to any success a floor worker might have while pouring.
Apogee Technology, Verona, Pa., has developed an electric ladle for molten metal transport.
Metal from the furnaces are transferred to any of the 35 diecasting machines via a 3,500-pound transfer ladle. The capacity of the machines varies from 1 to 3,500 tons, and all of the metal that goes to the machines is processed by the filter pump.