ladling
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]ladling
- present participle and gerund of ladle
Noun
[edit]ladling (plural ladlings)
- The act of moving material using a ladle.
- 1870, Henry Julian Hunter, Inquiry on the state of the Dwellings of Rural Labourers, page 142:
- […] by means of a spade only, without any of the filthy ladlings and bucketings which accompany the clearing a cesspool.