lepel

Definitions of lepel
  1. noun
    a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
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    eetlepel, pollepel, sleef, soeplepel
    a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup
    suikerlepeltje, suikerschepje
    a spoon for serving sugar; often made in the shape of a seashell
    opscheplepel, puddinglepel
    a spoon larger than a dessert spoon; used for serving
    koffielepeltje, roerijzer, theelepeltje
    a small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram
    type of:
    container, laadkist
    any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
  2. noun
    as much as a spoon will hold
    synonyms: schep, schepje
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