Usage examples "ladle":
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Wooden spoons were served to enable us to ladle
up the soup, but our fingers had to be used for the chicken, instead of knives and forks. - "On the Banks of the Amazon",
W.H.G. Kingston.
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Sir, hear what this mad priest does: He takes water out of a ladle,
And, throwing it at people's heads, He says that when they depart they are saved! - "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)",
Isaac D'Israeli.
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There was no reply, and again he roared the name of his servant, from the kitchen and from the courtyard, into which he rushed with a huge ladle
in his hand; then from farther off, outside the gate, which remained wide open. - "The Golden Silence",
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson.