It's a semi-spherical scoop with a short handle specifically designed for measuring an exact portion of tea and is typically kept in the tea caddy itself, but it's not an essential piece of equipment as a heaped teaspoon will do just fine.
Now you can weigh it out and it's about 50 grammes of butter and it's about 40 grammes of flour, fine, but a heaped tablespoon of butter and heaped tablespoon of flour is all you need to remember.
Susan took down the lump, and cutting off several thin slices, heaped them in an iron ladle, with which she returned to the living-room, and placed the vessel in the hot ashes of the fireplace.
Revulsion and fury rose in him like vomit; he balled up the newspaper and threw it, with all his force, at the wall, where it joined the rest of the rubbish heaped around his overflowing bin.
Snow had drifted in from the doorway and was heaped on the floor, mixed with something black, which turned out to be the charred sticks and ashes from the fire.
She looked at her tired parent, cold, hungry, and wet; then on the table, heaped with food for a little girl's eating, and with clothes for a little girl's wear.