ladle
- Top 10000
Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A large kitchen tool with a deep round cup and a long handle, used to lift liquid food out of a pot.
A ladle holds far more liquid than an ordinary spoon.
He skimmed the grey foam off the stock with a ladle.
The ladle slipped from her fingers straight into the pot.
Common collocations: a soup ladle · a metal ladle · a wooden ladle · serve with a ladle · a ladle of soup
Part of: Kitchen utensils, Cooking, Restaurants
Sense 2 · less common
- verb
- C1
To lift liquid food out of a pot with a ladle and put it somewhere else.
She ladled thick pea soup into six deep bowls.
He ladled hot syrup over the fruit in each jar.
Volunteers ladled out stew to everyone waiting in line.
Common collocations: ladle soup into bowls · ladle out portions · ladle sauce over · ladle from the pot
Part of: Kitchen utensils, Cooking, Restaurants
Forms
- past
- ladled
- plural
- ladles
- third_person
- ladles
- past_participle
- ladled