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Webster 1913 Edition
Puddle
Pud′dle
,Noun.
[OE.
podel
; cf. LG. pudel
, Ir. & Gael. plod
pool.] 1.
A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
Spenser.
2.
Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.
Puddle poet
, a low or worthless poet.
[R.]
Fuller.
Pud′dle
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Puddled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Puddling
.] 1.
To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
Some unhatched practice . . .
Hath
Hath
puddled
his clear spirit. Shakespeare
2.
(a)
To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
(b)
To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
3.
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.
Ure.
Puddled steel
, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process.
Pud′dle
,Verb.
I.
To make a dirty stir.
[Obs.]
R. Junius.
Webster 1828 Edition
Puddle
PUD'DLE
,Noun.
PUD'DLE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To make thick or close.Definition 2024
puddle
puddle
English
Puddles in a car park.
Noun
puddle (plural puddles)
- A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. [from 14th c.]
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
- And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:
- searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle, that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight. [from 18th c.]
Translations
a small pool of water
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a homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit
Verb
puddle (third-person singular simple present puddles, present participle puddling, simple past and past participle puddled)
- To form a puddle.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron by means of puddling.
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
- Shakespeare
- Some unhatched practice […] / Hath puddled his clear spirit.
- Shakespeare
Translations
to process iron by means of puddling
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to line a canal with puddle