Ladle vs Shovel - 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
A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
(US) A spade.
To move materials with a shovel.
(figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion.
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Ladle is a related term of shovel.
As nouns the difference between ladle and shovel
is that ladle is a deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle while shovel is a hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.As verbs the difference between ladle and shovel
is that ladle is to serve something with a ladle while shovel is to move materials with a shovel.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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shovel
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* put to bed with a shovel * steamshovel * snow shovel * coal shovel * shoveler * shovelfulExternal links
* (wikipedia "shovel")Verb
- The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
- After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
- I don't mind shoveling , but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.
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