Other forms: ladles
A ladle is the deep round spoon on a long handle made for serving soup. A soup ladle, ladle it out, a ladleful.
The bowl holds enough for a portion and the long handle keeps your hand out of the pot, which is the whole design. As a verb, to ladle is to serve with one, and to ladle out praise is to give it in generous helpings.
1nounladleA deep round spoon on a long handle for serving soup.
“She used a ladle to serve the soup into bowls.”
Patterna soup ladle · a ladle of / a ladleful of + noun · ladle sth into / out · ladle out
ladle is a utensil.
LADLE → rhymes with CRADLE: soup carried like a baby
It rhymes with cradle: a deep round spoon on a long handle that carries the soup from the pot to your bowl like a baby in a cradle, careful not to spill.
Old English hlaedel comes from a root meaning to load or lade — the same word behind lade and lading.
Proto-Indo-European
*kleh₂- — to put, lay out
Proto-Germanic
*hlaþaną — to load
Old English
hlædel
Middle English
ladel
English, today
ladle
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA