SG Heritage Dictionary

Puddle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small stand of dirty water; a muddy splash.

Puddle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt and water.

2. To make thick or close.

Puddle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make a dirty stir.

Puddle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

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.

Puddle-ball [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

Puddle-bar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

Puddled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made muddy or foul.

Puddled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Puddler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.