If you ladle food such as soup or stew, you serve it, especially with a ladle. Barry held the bowls while Liz ladled soup into them Mrs King went to the big black stove and ladled out steaming soup. ladle out to put soup or other liquid food onto plates or into bowls, especially using a ladle
Metal receptacle frequently lined with refractories used for transporting and pouring molten metal Types include hand bull, crane, bottom-pour, holding, teapot, shank, lip-pour
a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; used to transfer liquids remove with or as if with a ladle; "ladle the water out of the bowl" put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle; "ladle soup into the bowl
Metal barrel-like receptacles lined with a refractory material used to transport or pour molten metal
To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle