Also 7 lute. A name applied in the Cheshire and Staffordshire salt-works to the ladle used to remove the scum from the brine-pan. See LUTE sb.3, which is etymologically identical.
1669. W. Jackson, in Phil. Trans., IV. 1065. This bloudy brine at the first boyling of the Pann, brings up a scumm, which they are careful to take off with a Skimmer, made with a woodden handle thrust through a long square of Wainscot-board, twice as bigg as a good square trencher: this they call a Loot.
1686. Plot, Staffordsh., 94.
1880. C. H. Poole, Staffordsh. Gloss., Loot, a brine ladle.
