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noun

Puddle n.

1.

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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.)

verb

Puddle v. t. (past & past part. puddled; pres. part. puddling)

1.

To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water). "Some unhatched practice... Hath puddled his clear spirit."

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.

Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process.

Puddle v. i. To make a dirty stir. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Puddle" Quotes from Famous Books

... by the Germans and not employed by the French, as the front had moved far beyond them. The sides were dilapidated. Old shirts, bits of uniform, ends of straps, damaged field-glass cases, broken rifles, useless grenades lay all about. Here and there was a puddle of greenish water. Millions of flies, many of a sinister bright burnished green, were busily swarming. The forlornness of these trenches was heartrending. It was the most dreadful thing that I saw at the front, surpassing the forlornness of any destroyed village whatsoever. And at intervals in ...

— Over There • Arnold Bennett

... the whole population of the little town were running from every street leading to the church; and it happened that a courser [Footnote: A man who courses greyhounds.] of Otto Bork's came right against Sidonia with such violence, that, with a blow of his head, he knocked her down into the puddle (she was to lie there really in after-life). Her little balsam-flask was of no use here. She had to go back, dripping, to the castle, and appeared no more at her sister's nuptials, but consoled herself, ...

— Sidonia The Sorceress V1 • William Mienhold

... round the glass, And merrily troll the glee, For he who won't drink till he wink is an ass, So neighbor I drink to thee. Merrily, merrily puddle thy nose, Until it right rosy shall be; For a jolly red nose, I speak under the rose, Is a sign of ...

— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving

... It had crawled—crawled out of the tins into the oven—crawled down under the oven door to the kitchen floor, where it made a viscous puddle, and was now trying, apparently, to crawl out of sight under ...

— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens

... teaches us that peppermint is good for scaring bears, as well as for putting in candy. And if the snow man doesn't come in our house and sit by the gas stove until he melts into a puddle of molasses, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and ...

— Uncle Wiggily in the Woods • Howard R. Garis

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