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Ladle vs Piggin - What's the difference?

ladle | piggin |

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)
  • A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
  • * Boyle
    • 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 .
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (deep-bowled spoon) dipper

    Derived terms

    * frying ladle

    Verb

  • to serve something with a ladle

    • Anagrams

    *

    References

    English words suffixed with -le

    piggin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • * 1899 , .
    • At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.

    Synonyms

    * pig, pigg