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Ladled vs Laded - What's the difference?

ladled | laded |

As verbs the difference between ladled and laded

is that ladled is (ladle) while laded is (lade).

ladled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (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

    *

    laded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lade)
  • Anagrams

    *

    lade

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), akin to (etyl) ).

    Verb

  • To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  • * Bible, Genesis xlii. 26
  • And they laded their asses with the corn.
  • To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  • To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
  • to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
  • * Shakespeare
  • And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.
  • To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  • (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
  • Etymology 2

    English dialect, a ditch or drain. Compare (lode), (lead) to conduct.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.
  • (Bishop Gibson)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
  • (Scottish) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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