ladle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A long-handled spoon with a deep bowl for serving liquids.
• transitive verb To lift out or serve with a long-handled spoon.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A long-handled dish-shaped utensil for dipping or conveying liquids.
• noun A similarly shaped instrument for drawing a charge from a cannon.
• noun The float-board of a mill-wheel; a ladle-board.
• noun In glass manufacturing, same as cuvette, 2.
• noun A burghal duty charged on grain, meal, and flour brought to market for sale; the proceeds obtained from that duty: from the dish or vessel used to measure the grain or meal.
• To lift or dip with a ladle; lade.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle
• noun A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
• noun (Founding) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
• noun The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
• noun An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
• noun A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
• noun (Bot.) the wood of a South African tree (Cassine Colpoon), used for carving.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
• noun A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal
• verb transitive to serve something with a ladle

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle
• verb remove with or as if with a ladle
• noun a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another