English▸ noun a large long-handled spoon with a cup-shaped bowl, used for serving soup or sauce:
she dipped the ladle into the casserole dish.
▪ a container for transporting molten metal in a foundry.
▸ verb [with object and adverbial] serve (soup, stew, or sauce) with a ladle:
she ladled out onion soup.
▪ provide (information, advice, etc.) lavishly or overgenerously:
he was ladling out his personal philosophy of life.