different between ladle vs soupspoon

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.

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References

Anagrams

• Adell, Della

English

Etymology

soup +? spoon

Noun

soupspoon (plural soupspoons)

1. A spoon for eating soup, characterised by having a round bowl rather than the usual oval bowl of other types of spoon.
2. A soupspoonful.

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See also

• cutlery
• dessertspoon
• ladle
• lovespoon
• tablespoon
• teaspoon