In seamen's language, a thick
wreath or circle of
cordage,
tapering from the middle towards the ends, and fastened about the mast below the trusses, to prevent the yards from falling down when the ropes
sustaining them are shot away.
1. A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a
fender, on the bow of a boat.
2. A
bunch of soft material to prevent
chafing between spars, or the like.
Pudder
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Pudding
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard
consistence, variously made, but usually a compound of flour, or meal of
maiz, with milk and eggs, sometimes enriched with
raisins and called
plum-pudding.
2. An intestine.
3. An intestine stuffed with meat, ; etc. now called a
sausage.
5. Eat your pudding slave, and hold your tongue.
Pudding
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard
consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and
consistency of, pudding.
3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a
sausage.
1. The time of
dinner;
pudding being formerly the first
dish set on the table, or rather first eaten; a practice not yet obsolete among the common people of New England.
2. The
nick of time; critical time.
Puddle
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
2. To make thick or close.
Puddle
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand,
kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it
impervious to water.
Puddle
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
2. To make dense or close, as clay or
loam, by working when wet, so as to render
impervious to water.
3. To make
impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
4. 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.
The
lump of
pasty wrought iron as taken from the
puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.
An iron bar made at a single heat from a
puddle-ball hammering and rolling.
Puddler
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of
puddling.
Puddling
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. 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.
3. 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.
Puddly
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Consisting of, or resembling, puddles;
muddy; foul.