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What (who) is LADLING - definition
Ladling
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Ladle.
Ladled
·Impf & ·p.p. of Ladle.
ladle
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Ladle (disambiguation)
(ladles, ladling, ladled)
1.
A ladle is a large, round, deep spoon with a long handle, used for serving soup, stew, or sauce.
N-COUNT
2.
If you ladle food such as soup or stew, you serve it, especially with a ladle.
Barry held the bowls while Liz ladled soup into them...
Mrs King went to the big black stove and ladled out steaming soup.
VERB: V n prep, V n with adv, also V n
Examples of use of LADLING
1. In the meantime, please stop ladling out the guilt.
2. "I‘m losing business because customers want their news, and that‘s part of why they visit our tea shop," said Liaqad Ali, 30, ladling the steaming brew into cups in Lahore.
3. It was an over–cautious lawyer who had persuaded her of her penury, ladling out small amounts of money when she asked for them while he spent several years examining the unfamiliar ramifications of a literary estate.
4. Two years ago, his challenge persuaded Citigroup‘s CitiFinancial Credit Co. to pay a $70 million fine to settle Federal Reserve charges of impropriety in ladling out high–interest loans to the poor.
5. But with little cash or education, he applied instead for a job in the cafeteria of the University of Dakar, ladling out bowls of greasy rice and fish stew for hungry students.