ladle
noun
a long-handled utensil with a cup-shaped bowl for dipping or conveying liquids.
ladler
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a word derived from
ladle.
Example Sentences
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“There used to be a lot more middle-class jobs,” said Clyde bleakly, another concrete ladler.
From Economist ● Nov. 3, 2016
People who were once children at the head of a soup line remember that they learned to beg the ladler for a deep stir so they would not get only flavored water.
From Time Magazine Archive
Max had married Valerie back a million years ago, it seemed like, at Miracle School, where she worked as a potion ladler.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
The soup ladler was ladling rapidly, rolling his eyes sideways.
From The Yillian Way by Keith Laumer
Why another old man like me—Andrey Pupir—the mistress ordered to be put into the paper factory, as a ladler.
From A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I by Constance Garnett
