Ladle vs Piggin - What's the difference?
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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
English words suffixed with -le
(dialect) A small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop. It was used on farms for scattering grain for the chickens, slopping the hogs, as a one-handed milk bucket, and as a grain scoop.
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As nouns the difference between ladle and piggin
is that ladle is a deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle while piggin is (dialect) a small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can in the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long this stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop it was used on farms for scattering grain for the chickens, slopping the hogs, as a one-handed milk bucket, and as a grain scoop.As a verb ladle
is to serve something with a ladle.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 .
Synonyms
* (deep-bowled spoon) dipperDerived terms
* frying ladleVerb
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piggin
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Noun
(en noun)- At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.
