ladle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   remove with or as if with a ladle

   Ladle the water out of the bowl.

2. 2
   verb

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

   Ladle soup into the bowl.

From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), equivalent to lade + -le (“agent suffix”).

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