[f. LADLE v. + -ER1.]
1. One who ladles.
1875. Whyte-Melville, Katerfelto, i. (1876), 4. ‘A fine!’ objected the punch-ladler, judicially.
1885. Census Instructions, 89. Rolled Plate Glass Making: Ladler.
2. Sc. ‘The customer of the ladle in the grain market’ (Jam., Suppl.).
1643. Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1881), II. 57. It is to be remembred that the ladlearis hes receavit seavine ladils. Ibid. (1644), 7. The ladillars hes gottin seavin ladils.
