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ladle a large bucket-shaped container for transferring molten metal ladle [′lād·əl] (design engineering) A deep-bowled spoon with a long handle for dipping up, transporting, and pouring liquids. (metallurgy) A receptacle for transporting and pouring molten metal. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| So you ladle out from one kettle into the other till it gets so, when you put the stirring-stick into it, that it will draw into a thread— when it takes a kerful hand to manage it. Our carpenter being prepared to grave the outside of the ship, as well as to pay the seams where he had caulked her to stop the leaks, had got two kettles just let down into the boat, one filled with boiling pitch, and the other with rosin, tallow, and oil, and such stuff as the shipwrights use for that work; and the man that attended the carpenter had a great iron ladle in his hand, with which he supplied the men that were at work with the hot stuff. Mary did look up, and she did stare at me: the ladle with which she was basting a pair of chickens roasting at the fire, did for some three minutes hang suspended in air; and for the same space of time John's knives also had rest from the polishing process: but Mary, bending again over the roast, said only - |
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