different between ladle vs piggin

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?le?.d?l/
• Rhymes: -e?d?l

Noun

ladle (plural ladles)

1. A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
   • 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles

     When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen afterwards take off with ladles.

2. (metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
3. The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
4. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
5. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

Synonyms

• (deep-bowled spoon): dipper

Derived terms

• frying ladle

Translations

Verb

ladle (third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled)

1. (transitive) To pour or serve something with a ladle.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Adell, Della

English

Etymology

Origin obscure (possibly Celtic) but dates back at least to the 14th century.Scots; compare Scottish Gaelic pigean, diminutive of pigeadh, pige (“an earthen jar, pitcher, or pot”), Irish pigín, pighead, Welsh picyn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???n/

Noun

piggin (plural piggins)

1. (dialect) A small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop for scattering grain, slopping the hogs, etc.
   • 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Goophered Grapevine.

     At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.

   Synonyms: pig, pigg