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語源

From 中期英語 ladel, from 古期英語 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”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈleɪ.dəl/
• 韻: -eɪdəl

名詞

ladle (plural ladles)

1. A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.

   Synonym: dipper

   Coordinate term: serving spoon

   • 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles:

     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. (metallurgy) 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.

   Synonym: ladle board

4. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
   • 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 6:

     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.

派生語

派生した語

• → Welsh: ladl

動詞

ladle (third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled)

1. (transitive) To pour or serve something with a ladle.

   One worker ladled molten steel into the shot sleeve.

   The host ladled the soup into her guests' bowls.

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アナグラム

• Adell, Della