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- Is the verb usage of ladle considered verbing?
From ladle to ladle, From verb to verb It was verbing verbification when it was verbed verbified The noun ladle was verbed to the verb ladle long time ago, as early as 1525 per OED 1; thus, any use of the verb ladle after the first usage of the verb is not verbing verbification anymore
- Is it ladle or laddle? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Historically, there are several instances of the word spelt with a double-d over a long period … the carpenter's man had a great iron laddle with which he used to supply the workmen with hot stuff, and as two of the enemies entered the boat where the fellow stood, he saluted them with a full laddle of the hot boiling liquor …
- How is the ending -le or -el determined? - English Language Usage . . .
@wfaulk, A ladle is a container used to move liquid steel around a steelworks; typically, it will hold about 300 tons I'm working on a mathematical model of the temperatures involved, as we don't want the steel freezing inside (as it is difficult to get it out if this happens) or melting a hole in the bottom (which is bad for the staff on the
- meaning - What does He who sups with the devil should have a long . . .
Yes, sir, the proverb says he that eats with the devil has need of a long spoon I have brought you a ladle —Marlowe's Jew of Malta, III 4 Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil —[Shakespeare's] Comedy of Errors, IV 3 >This is a devil and no monster : I will leave him ; I have no long spoon
- etymology - Origin of the wrong end of the stick - English Language . . .
Before toilet paper and Sears catalogs, there was a wooden spatula called the stick If you were in the outhouse after dark and you had to find the stick in the dark, you had a good chance of finding the wrong, dirty, shitty end of the stick
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