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Forming into small pools
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puddling
Word definitions for puddling in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Puddling is both the material and the process of lining a water body such as a channel or pond with puddle clay (puddle, puddling) - a watertight (low hydraulic conductivity ) material based on clay and water mixed to be workable,
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puddling \Pud"dling\, n. (Hydraul. Engin.) 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. Puddle. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of making a puddle. 2 The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids. 3 (context canal engineering English) The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight. ...
Usage examples of puddling.
Then Loral grabs the discarded body and slings it onto the heap in the corner, which one of our fellow special action troops carts away on a pallet loader every so often, while I flail at the floor with a broom in a losing battle to stop the blood puddling around our feet.
An amber splotch, that was all, trickling to the parquetry floor, puddling as though a dog had urinated in the corner.
Beside the rig lay a mountainous heap of drilling rods, beyond them the ten thousand-gallon puddling reservoir to provide water for the hole.
They kept walking through the patches of light and shadow that filled the streets, pools of light puddling in the intersections, shadow creeping back at the middle of the blocks, where the streetlights did not overlap.
Condensation coated the mossy walls, water droplets drizzling down pillars and puddling on the floor.
After the lapse of seventy-eight years, the language employed by Cort continues on the whole a faithful description of the processes still practised: the same methods of manufacturing bar from cast-iron, and of puddling, piling, welding, and working the bar-iron through grooved rollers— all are nearly identical with the methods of manufacture perfected by Henry Cort in 1784.
A wriggling red stream came out of his frizzled hair, puddling on the carpet.
From the igniting of the oxyacetylene torch to the puddling of the filler rod, from the tacking of the can's separated sides to the forming of a lap joint, Boomer's lost sock knew exactly what needed to be doneand under its expert direction, Painted Stick proved dexterous enough (just barely) to do it.
Thus Onions' furnace was of the nature of a puddling furnace, the fire of which was urged by a blast.
After a few puddlings, I knew my source and it couldn’t have been more difficult in terms of design.
They dropped from the end of the moving belt into the puddling tank, and from there were pushed by the agitating arms of the revolving sweep down the sloping boards of the wiffle table.