[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a long-handled utensil with a cup-shaped bowl for dipping or conveying liquids.", "Metallurgy.a bucketlike, refractory-lined container for transferring molten metal."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to dip or convey with or as if with a ladle:to ladle soup into bowls."]}]