ladler

English

Etymology

From ladle +‎ -er.

Noun

ladler (plural ladlers)

1. One who ladles.
   • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 23, in Small Island‎^[1], London: Review, page 240:

     […] by the time I was twelve I was my mother’s little helper—the filler of pies, the ladler of jelly, the person to whom Mother snapped, ‘Hurry up, I’ll need to put the tops on those pies.’

2. Someone who transports molten metal in a ladle.

Anagrams

• Allred, Ellard