The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puddle \Pud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Puddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Puddling.]
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To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
Some unhatched practice . . . Hath puddled his clear spirit.
--Shak. To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
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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.Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: puddle)
Usage examples of "puddled".
I was blocked for a time at one of the temporary buvettes set up before a shop, a simple pair of planks laid across two barrels where a man sloshed wine from a big bottle back and forth over rows of stout glasses until they were more or less full on the puddled planks.
Her cuz Whitey Hawthorn lay with his head half-severed from his body, his jugular ripped open, blood puddled under his neck.
Its forelimbs alighted amid the hissing steam of puddled snow, then the hind limbs, in bounding, sleek balance.
The soka puddled there, mixing with the blood of Totha who lay close by.
The soka puddled there, mixing with the blood of Totha who lay close-by.
As he crossed the forest road from Charlbury to Witney he saw that it was puddled with fresh hoof marks.
It hammered and seethed and bounced on the fort and ran from the ramparts to slop in bucketfuls on to the puddled courtyard.
How could I be sure of that, trudging along with the other men, in a phalanx of dark uniforms, kitbags, clanking mess-tins, steel helmets, boots, stamping down a puddled road with a chill wind in our faces?
But that lasted only a split second as the puddled oil from the smashed reservoirs touched the glowing metal wicks and ignited into pools of fire.
It was noticeably chillier in Minneapolis when we landed, and I saw that the Twin Cities Airport runways and ramps were wet and puddled.
If, happily, complacent circumstances have lifted us to the clean paved platform out of grip of puddled clay and bespattering wheeltracks, we get our chance of coming to it.
Water foamed out of downspouts into nearby drains, drizzled off roofs, puddled in the streets, and overflowed gutters, and because the city was almost entirely dark, the pools and streams looked more like oil than water.
The few ammonos here had their arms tucked under their carapaces, and rain puddled on the clear coatings over their backs.
When Buford got there the thick stain had already puddled the dirt beneath his head.
The first, obtained by the decarburation of the metal, gives natural or puddled steel.