ladle
la-dle / lād-l
noun 1. a cup-shaped spoon with a long handle, used to serve or move liquids No man can perfectly empty a pot with a ladle. South African Proverb 2. a bucket-like container used to transfer molten metal A shout was heard, and a tall crane swung a gigantic ladle under the converting vessel, which then mysteriously upended, exploding like a cannon a prodigious discharge of star-like pieces of whit-hot slag. McClure’s Magazine, 1893 verb 1. to scoop or serve (a liquid) using a long-handled spoon As he could not lift the whole pailful of water at once, he fetched a milk jug, and ladled quarts of water into the pail by degrees. From “The Tale of Mr. Tod” by Beatrix Potter, 1866 - 1943