ladle

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈleɪ.dəl/    /ˈleɪ.dəl/|/ˈlæɪ.dəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.
    — 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. A container used in a foundry or steel mill to transport and pour out molten metal.
  3. The float or paddle on a mill wheel.
  4. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
    — 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.
  5. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
动词 v.
  1. To pour or serve something with a ladle. transitive
    — One worker ladled molten steel into the shot sleeve.

词形变化

ladles plural ladles present,singular,third-person ladling participle,present ladled participle,past ladled past

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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