0 past simple and past participle of ladle
1 to put soup or other liquid food into bowls to give to people, using a ladle
When he saw me, he ladled out a cup of wine and gave it to me to drink.
No good at all has been done by the indiscriminate way in which these honours have been ladled out.
The £500 million should not be ladled out to private investors in order that they may line their pockets.
Let us not pretend that we have not ladled on our protections as thickly as possible.
He failed to take the heat out of the booming sector—the consumer sector—but ladled taxes on to the sector in decline: the manufacturing sector.
Are they going to be grateful to them for it, or for all the gush that has been ladled out to the leaders?
He ladled out doles to all kinds of industry by means of de-rating.
They carried the soup to the sick person; ladled it out; the person drank it—and ten or fourteen days after that we had a lovely funeral.
