ladle

A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.

• When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen afterwards take off with ladles.

A container used in a foundry or steel mill to transport and pour out molten metal.

The float or paddle on a mill wheel.

An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.

• The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.

A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

To pour or serve something with a ladle.transitive

• One worker ladled molten steel into the shot sleeve.
• The host ladled the soup into her guests' bowls.