Bale vs Ladle - What's the difference?
bale | ladle | Synonyms |
Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
Suffering, woe, torment.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
(obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
(archaic) A funeral pyre.
(archaic) A beacon-fire.
A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
To wrap into a bale.
(British, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
* Boyle
A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
to serve something with a ladle
In transitive terms the difference between bale and ladle
is that bale is to wrap into a bale while ladle is to serve something with a ladle.bale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- That other swayne, like ashes deadly pale, / Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale .
Derived terms
* balefulEtymology 2
Form (etyl) (which may have been the direct source for the English word).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* balefire * balefulEtymology 3
Precise derivation uncertain: perhaps from (etyl) (m), (m), from , from (etyl); or perhaps from (etyl) (m), itself borrowed from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bale of diceCoordinate terms
* (measurement of paper) bundle, quire, reamSee also
*Verb
(bal)Etymology 4
Alternative spelling of (bail)Verb
(bal)See also
*Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----ladle
English
Noun
(en noun)- When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles .