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Original entry ↗A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle. · A container used in a foundry or steel mill to transport and pour out molten metal. · The float or paddle on a mill wheel. · An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), equivalent to lade + -le (“agent suffix”).
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