ladle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A long-handled spoon with a deep bowl for serving liquids.
2. v. To lift out or serve with a long-handled spoon.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A long-handled dish-shaped utensil for dipping or conveying liquids. Ladles for domestic uses are made in many forms and of a variety of materials. One form of foundry-ladle of iron, technically called a shank, for conveying molten metal from the furnace to the mold, has opposite handles for two men, one of them furnished with a cross-bar at the end for tilting the ladle to pour out the metal. For very large work such foundry-ladles are moved by a crane.
2. n. A similarly shaped instrument for drawing a charge from a cannon.
3. n. The float-board of a mill-wheel; a ladle-board.
4. n. In glass manufacturing, same as cuvette, 2.
5. To lift or dip with a ladle; lade.
6. n. A burghal duty charged on grain, meal, and flour brought to market for sale; the proceeds obtained from that duty: from the dish or vessel used to measure the grain or meal.

Wiktionary

1. n. A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
2. n. A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal
3. v. to serve something with a ladle

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
2. n. A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
3. n. The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
4. n. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
5. n. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
6. v. To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle

WordNet 3.0

1. v. put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle
2. v. remove with or as if with a ladle
3. n. a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another