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Della abused one serving soup (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ladle

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'one serving soup' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.

'della abused' is the wordplay.
'abused' indicates anagramming the letters.
'della' anagrammed gives 'LADLE'.

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(Other definitions for ladle that I've seen before include "Soup or sauce server" , "Spoon - a dell (anag)" , "Serving implement" , "Large deep spoon for serving soup" , "Soup-server" .)

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