Puddle
['pʌd(ə)l] or ['pʌdl]
Definition
(noun.) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry.
(verb.) make a puddle by splashing water.
(verb.) mess around, as in a liquid or paste; 'The children are having fun puddling in paint'.
(verb.) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud.
(verb.) dip into mud before planting; 'puddle young plants'.
(verb.) subject to puddling or form by puddling; 'puddle iron'.
(verb.) wade or dabble in a puddle; 'The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard'.
Checker: Olga--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
(n.) Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.
(v. t.) To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
(v. t.) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
(v. t.) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
(v. t.) To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron.
(v. i.) To make a dirty stir.
Typed by Laverne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pool (of dirty water).
Edited by Johanna
Definition
n. an ill-shaped awkward person.
n. a small pool of muddy water: a mixture of clay and sand.—v.t. to make muddy: to stir up mud: to make water-tight by means of clay: to convert into bar or wrought iron.—v.i. to make a dirty stir.—ns. Pudd′ler one who turns cast-iron into wrought-iron by puddling; Pudd′ling the act of rendering impervious to water by means of clay: the process of converting cast into bar or wrought iron.—adj. Pudd′ly dirty.
Typist: Toni
Unserious Contents or Definition
To find yourself stepping into puddles of clear water in a dream, denotes a vexation, but some redeeming good in the future. If the water be muddy, unpleasantness will go a few rounds with you. To wet your feet by stepping into puddles, foretells that your pleasure will work you harm afterwards.
Edited by Angus
Examples
- This puddle is an important source of the Jordan. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Why, they were never masters of anything liquid larger than a puddle. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- At which the children got up from the puddle instantly, and ran off to pay their court to Peggy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The puddles which collect at the foot of a hill after a storm are muddy because of the particles of soil gathered by the water as it runs down the hill. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is not four feet deep anywhere, and it is all puddles and pools. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This process of puddling lasted for about an hour and a half and entailed extremely severe labour on the workman. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This process is called _puddling_, and consists in exposing the molten metal to an oxidizing current of flame and air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1784 Henry Cort of England introduced the puddling process and grooved rolls. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A much more thorough and satisfactory result in the production of a pure malleable iron is thus obtained than is possible by hand puddling. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Puddling had been invented, but not successfully used before. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Henry Cort and Puddling, 1784, and its Subsequent Wonderful Value. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To bring it into wrought iron, which is malleable and ductile, it is puddled and refined, which involves chiefly the burning out of the carbon and silicon. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Tim