| Puddle | n. [ OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool. ] 1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. [ 1913 Webster ]
Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Puddle | v. 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). [ 1913 Webster ] Some unhatched practice . . .
Hath puddled his clear spirit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Puddling | n. 1. (Hydraul. Engin.) (a) The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material. (b) Puddle. See Puddle, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Metal.) The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities. [ 1913 Webster ]
Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling. [ 1913 Webster ]
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