Word Finder - puddled

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To form a puddle.

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To play or splash in a puddle.

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Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.

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To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.

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To line a canal with puddle (clay).

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To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.

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To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.

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

Large spots of blood puddled the tile in a dozen places.

This is the case in " puddled " clays, but in ordinary clay soils the excessively minute particles of which they largely consist tend to form groups of comparatively large composite grains and it is in such natural soils that the pore-space is largest.

When finished off, the pots should be watered well, to settle the soil; but they should stand till the water has well drained away, since, if they are moved about while the fresh soil is very wet, there will be a risk of its becoming puddled or too much consolidated.

Here BB is a large fixed iron cylinder, corrugated within, and C an excentric cylinder, also corrugated, which, in turning to the right, by the friction of its corrugated surface rotates the puddled ball D which has just entered at A, so that, turning around its own axis, it travels to the right and is gradually changed from a ball into a bloom, a rough cylindrical mass of white hot iron, still dripping with cinder.

These large charges are puddled by two gangs of four men each, and a great saving in fuel and labour is effected.

A large piece of land, barely above high-water mark, is levelled, and if necessary puddled with clay.

It resembles the Casa Grande ruin of Chihuahua, Mexico, with its walls of sundried puddled clay, and its area of rooms, courts and plazas, surrounded by a wall.

Into this trench socalled " puddled clay," that is, clay rendered plastic by kneading with water, is filled and thoroughly worked with special tools, and trodden in layers.

Wherever the base of a puddle wall cannot be worked into a continuous bed of clay or shale, or tied into a groove cut in sound rock free from water-hearing fissures, the safest course is to base it on an artificial material at once impermeable and incapable of erosion, interposed between the rock and the puddled clay.

However well the work may be done, the lower part of a mass of puddled clay invariably settles into a denser mass when weighted with the clay above.

Its construction drew much attention to the subject of masonry dams in England - where the earthwork dam, with a wall of puddled clay, had hitherto been almost universal - and since its completion nine more masonry dams of smaller size have been completed.