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• n  a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
• v  put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle
  ladle soup into the bowl
• v  remove with or as if with a ladle
  ladle the water out of the bowl

• From mold to mold the ladle hastens, filling each with its white-hot content.
• It took Brisbon less than one year to kill again, this time stabbing a fellow inmate at Stateville Correctional Center with the sharpened handle of a soup ladle.
• Imported chefs have been offering the homesick lads ladle after ladle of stewed chickpeas and the national dish, haricot beans (thankfully, antacid is not on the list of proscribed .

• lade
• laden

News & Articles

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• Other days
  100 YEARS AGO June 10, 1913 That a counterfeiter or a gang of counterfeiters once operated within the walls of the state penitentiary became apparent yesterday when seven counterfeit dollars and a ladle were found in an air vent in the old penitentiary building on the new state Capitol grounds by C.B. Probst, who is demolishing the structure.
  June 10, 2013 - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Quotes

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• Laura Ingraham in Men's News Daily
  Today's female-friendly politicians stir a stew of vaguely defined issues such as violence against women, women's medical needs or girls' education,Laura Ingraham wrote in The Hillary Trap. "They ladle it out to the public whenever it...
• Robert Rubin in MarketWatch
  Fiscal policy is the other ladle in the macroeconomic punch bowl, and consistency in use of the two ladles is powerful, and inconsistency can be injurious,Rubin said.
• Nick Robinson in guardian.co.uk
  If you ladle it out, you've got to take it,said Robinson, although he never actually published his expenses.