(v. t.) A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
(v. t.) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
(v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
(v. t.) An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
(v. t.) A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
(v. t.) To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are also known for space-saving devices such as utensils which pack neatly on top of each other in a stand, spatulas, palette knifes and ladles that use a weighted handle to avoid being placed on the countertop, thus saving cleaning.
(2) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
(3) The highest dust exposures were found during furnace, cupola, and pouring ladle repair.
(4) The latest recovery has been robust, but it was always a fantasy to believe that the ECB could solve all the euro's problems with its long-term refinancing operations, ladling out ultra-cheap three-year money to European banks .
(5) Ladle a little of the pasta cooking water into the other pan.
(6) Pour in a small ladleful of batter and swirl around to cover the base of the pan.
(7) 7 Ladle the sauce into a warmed serving dish and arrange the koftas on top.
(8) There's some shared soup somewhere in my head from which these two things are ladling."
(9) When the first ladleful is absorbed add the trevisano and stir through (this will gradually soften throughout the cooking process).
(10) In the 1st part of the experiment, older and younger adults read a series of high-cloze sentence frames, each missing its final word (e.g., "She ladled the soup into her____.").
(11) A malacological survey was undertaken at three-monthly intervals by means of ten scoops with a perforated ladle each ten metres along the two banks of the ditches and streams of the region.
(12) She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi streetside restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic stool and slurped down Vietnam’s famed “bun cha” delicacy.
(13) Once the pan is really hot, reduce the heat to medium and add the pancake mix using a ladle – about 2tbsp of batter per crepe.
(14) When the butter starts to sizzle, give the batter a quick stir, then pour or ladle in enough to give a wafer-thin layer.
(15) Add the enoki mushrooms to the broth, simmer for a minute or two, then ladle over the cheeks.
(16) Use a ladle to apply a thin layer of pancake mixture to the pan, try to cook it with no colour - approximately two minutes, and then turn it.
(17) One of my happiest food memories is of eating a black dhal (made with the dark unskinned "urad" lentil) before sunrise in Pakistan during Ramadan – rich and spicy and thickened with heavy ladles of butter or "ghee" to fill you up for the day.
(18) It’s set to invade your mind all over again: those four trilling balalaika notes, like four great big tablespoons of treacle ladled into your mind.
(19) Keep checking the rice after about 20 minutes and when almost done add another ladleful of stock, the parmesan, a squeeze of lemon, the remaining butter and stir.
(20) On every street corner of this district, at around noon, a woman with a big tin pot ladles out thick gruel to a stream of small children carrying tin bowls.
Loot
Definition:
(n.) The act of plundering.
(n.) Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.
(v. t. & i.) To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(2) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(3) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(4) This might be because they have not been paid and are motivated by a desire to loot, as well as to settle old and new scores with the opposing force.
(5) We want the painting back, with the admission that it was looted art,” he said.
(6) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(7) The primary need of the people is not western-style educational patronage, but an end to the arms trade and multinational looting of resources.
(8) Neither do we accept the owner could not have known it was looted.
(9) They just hear bullets and are on the loose running anywhere, looting, raping and doing anything.
(10) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
(11) They were looting, not shoplifting, and challenging the police for control of the streets, not stealing [policemen’s] hubcaps.
(12) And while large stores were targeted, some smaller shops had not escaped the looting.
(13) Parts of the town have been burnt, our facilities were completely looted, but people are coming back and are not afraid any more.
(14) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(15) On Wednesday the town of Mubi, home to Adamawa State University, was overrun by Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian soldiers fled, leaving its barracks to be looted of weapons.
(16) Photograph: Dr Oetker “This is an outstanding example of a private company doing the right thing with regards to Nazi-looted art and sets a standard of best practice in this field,” he said.
(17) Belgium was arguably the cruellest of all colonisers, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko looted the nation's wealth for 32 years, then a civil war sparked by genocide in neighbouring Rwanda left more than 4 million people dead and brought about the biggest peacekeeping operation in UN history.
(18) The judge said – in a written ruling – that the Sony distribution warehouse had been destroyed and looted shortly before midnight on 8 August 2011 during "the widespread civil disorder and rioting which took place in London and elsewhere" after a man was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London.
(19) The looted art trove may help to shed light on one of the more obscure chapters in Nazi Germany's history.
(20) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.