[f. LADLE sb. + -FUL 2.] As much as fills a ladle.
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., 8. Þan caste a ladel-ful, or more or lasse, of boter þer-to.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc., A ij b. The first ladlefull had a smacke as soft as pap.
1700. Tyrrell, Hist. Eng., II. 900. The … Cook … cast a Ladle-full of Boiling Water in his Face.
1727. Swift, Wonder of all W., Wks. 1755, II. II. 56. He takes a pot of scalding oyl and throws it by great ladlesfull directly at the ladies.
1871. C. Gibbon, Lack of Gold, vi. He raised the ladleful of the liquid and allowed its contents to drip into the glass.
