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noun

Puddle n.

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

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)

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

(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.

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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Etymology of 'Puddle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Puddle" Quotes from Famous Books

... that puddle on the floor beneath you? Don't move! Stay where you are." She sprang to my side ...

— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

... is it?" he asked, with a jerk of his thumb toward a cloud of blue-and-yellow butterflies drifting over a shining puddle—"five miles as the crow flies, ...

— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

... thing Tom knew, he was sailing through the air, high above Swift Enterprises. Lake Carlopa was a tiny blue puddle below, and the town of Shopton a mere cluster of ...

— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton

... two days ago. I wet my feet in a puddle in the street," she answered. "But Anne did say that they would soon get dry, if I held them to the fire, because my other boots was not clean. Oh, my head does ...

— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard

... around gradually over his face, like when you heave a brickbat in a mud-puddle, and ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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