Word Finder - puddles

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A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.

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Stagnant or polluted water.

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A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.

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The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.

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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).

He would drink water from muddy puddles to survive.

She walked around, avoiding the puddles of water.

It mixed with the rain to drip pink puddles on the ceramic floor.

Puddles also offers tuxedos, ties, vests and accessories.

The overnight rain lies in puddles on the road; the earth squelches softly underfoot.

Scott pedaled precariously down the street, doing his best to avoid puddles and potholes.

The outer cotton fabric is treated with a waterproof polyurethane coating, so your girls won't get soggy when splashing in monster puddles.

Patagonia's Rain Shadow Jacket keeps your child dry and toasty while he splashes in puddles or takes a rainy hike in the Pacific Northwest.

The ova of Anopheles are tiny black rodshaped objects, which are deposited on the water of natural puddles, ponds, or slowly moving streams, by preference those which are well supplied with vegetation; they float, singly or attached to other objects or clustered together in patterns.

All puddles and collections of water should be filled in or drained; as a temporary expedient they may be treated with petroleum, which prevents the development of the larvae.

Choose roads that have been cleared and try to avoid puddles and ice patches.

Featuring clothing from the Muddy Puddles range of childrens clothing.

When we first bought our new car my wife asked me if I could not hit any puddles or debris in the road.

I drive through the deep puddles to the end of Green Lane near the motorway.

The campsite became boggy at first, then huge puddles appeared, then, at about 8pm the river burst its banks.

As we splashed through puddles and trudged through mud, I struck up a conversation, having clocked the Clash badge on her coat.

And then I think about that kid and I tell him to wrap up warm and splash about in the puddles.

The puddles led to sketches then mockups and finally the Tarn series.

If your girl wants to ride her bike after a rainfall, don't worry about her getting too wet riding through the puddles.

Even if you're wearing your activewear just to run errands rather than a marathon, you still don't want the bottoms of your pants dragging through mud puddles and getting caught under your sneakers.

You just don't want to walk all over the hems or drag them through mud puddles all day.

More importantly, these boots are made with water resistant suede; so should you find yourself wading through a brook and stomping through cheery puddles, you needn't fear the wildnerness!

You can treat the leather upper pair of the boot just as you would a traditional cowboy boot, but the sole itself stops leaking when you're splashing through rain puddles or dealing with lots of snow.

If you are in the middle of winter, try tucking those jeans into your knee-high Western boots to keep them safe from slush and puddles.

Watch for smoke coming from your tailpipe or hood, and keep an eye out for puddles under your car.

Dean bumped along, skirting puddles but having no difficulty navigating the seldom-used route.

This zoological group includes Gordian worms which are found swimming in an undulatory manner or coiling round water-weeds in ponds and puddles, or knotted together in an apparently inextricable coil.

No rain which was nice but lots and lots of icy puddles.

Pools of tar, like puddles of black sticky treacle had erupted on the roads in the City.

The unexpected occurrence of these worms in pools and puddles, often in great numbers, has given rise to myths about showers of worms. They occasionally make their way into the human stomach with the drinking-water and are vomited; but this is a case of pseudo-parasitism - they are no true parasite of man.

A hunter told me that he once saw a fox pursued by hounds burst out on to Walden when the ice was covered with shallow puddles, run part way across, and then return to the same shore.

But it is easiest, as they who work on the highways know, to find the hollows by the puddles after a shower.

Sometimes, also, when the ice was covered with shallow puddles, I saw a double shadow of myself, one standing on the head of the other, one on the ice, the other on the trees or hillside.

The horses stepped over the field as over a thick carpet, now and then splashing into puddles as they crossed a road.

We were a couple of puppies scampering round and making puddles on the carpets of society.

The raincoats offer a generous cut, which allows kids the freedom to splash in puddles for hours.

If you notice water or ice that is compact or in puddles, take care of this as soon as possible.

Notice how much sunlight the area gets and whether water drains easily or it puddles.

Puddles around the bottom of your beds can cause problems with roots.

An advantage to choosing this option is that rain passed through it, and you avoid having to deal with puddles forming on its surface.

Fish during all times of the day and night, in rain or in shine and in every water source you can find, even puddles.

From the beginning of time, children have probably floated leaves, sticks, and bits of wood in puddles and ponds.

Dean half-felt his way across the parking lot in his bare feet, cursing the pebbles and splashing through ankle-deep puddles at curbside before stumbling into the absolute darkness of the beach-side path.

He was tempted to cry to the puddles between Elstow and Bedford, "Be ye dry," and to stake his eternal hopes on the event.

The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked.