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ladle

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈleɪ.dəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted adellStarts with LEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. remove with or as if with a ladle

Word origin

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 (“agent suffix”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.
  • One worker ladled molten steel into the shot sleeve.

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