Ladle

1. v. t. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
2. v. t. A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
3. v. t. A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
4. v. t. The float of a mill wheel; — called also ladle board.
5. v. t. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.