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  • noun someone who transports molten metal in a ladle.

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Examples

  • You probably will not, as the most of your military experience, if you actually have any, likely dealt with being a gravy ladler on the wrong side of a chow line, or some other REMF job.

    Florida Python Cast & Blast 2010

  • You probably will not, as the most of your military experience, if you actually have any, likely dealt with being a gravy ladler on the wrong side of a chow line, or some other REMF job.

    Florida Python Cast & Blast 2010

  • Yakov, called the Turk because he actually was descended from a Turkish woman, a prisoner from the war, was by nature an artist in every sense of the word, and by calling, a ladler in a paper factory belonging to a merchant.

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • Pupir — the mistress ordered to be put into the paper factory, as a ladler.

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • [55] The words ladles and ladler seem to have descended from a time when the exactions were made in kind by ladling the quantity out of the sack.

    Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

  • And at the next meeting of Senate “Mr. Smith reported that he had spoken to the Provost of Glasgow about the ladles exacted by the town from students for meal brought into the town for their own use, and that the Provost promised to cause what had been exacted to be returned, and that accordingly the money was offered by the town's ladler [55] to the students.”

    Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

  • The offices in the up-town sky-scraper were not exclusively a railroad social centre where the disinterested voter could come and have the facts ladled out to him without fear or favor on the part of the ladler.

    The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

  • A pair of young men, unacquainted with each other, pressed at the same time to the punch-bowl, and Jack, the chief ladler, turning from the younger, a clerk in civil dress, helped the elder, a tall naval officer, to a couple of glasses.

    Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • The clerk, young Utie, who was somewhat flushed, addressed the chief ladler and remarked:

    Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • Why another old man like me -- Andrey Pupir -- the mistress ordered to be put into the paper factory, as a ladler.

    A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

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