What is "ladles"

Usage examples of "ladles".

Around many of the fires, men sprawled against their saddles, drinking ladles of kumiss and swapping stories.

Cathy had brought a silver polish cloth with her to shine up the four solid-silver ladles that Molly Hayes had insisted on using.

Heavy leather aprons and goggles had spared her body a worse singeing, but wearing all that armor made more exhausting the work of dragging heavy ladles brimming with molten, sunlike heat.