What is "puddle"

Puddle \Pud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Puddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Puddling.]

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

   Some unhatched practice . . . Hath puddled his clear spirit.
   --Shak.

2. 1. To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.

   2. To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.

3. 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.

Puddle \Pud"dle\, v. i. To make a dirty stir. [Obs.]
--R. Junius.

Puddle \Pud"dle\, n. [OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool.]

1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
   --Spenser.

2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.

   Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.]
   --Fuller.

early 14c., "small pool of dirty water," frequentative or diminutive of Old English pudd "ditch," related to German pudeln "to splash in water" (compare poodle). Originally used of pools and ponds as well.

"to dabble in water, poke in mud," mid-15c., from puddle (n.); extended sense in iron manufacture is "turn and stir (molten iron) in a furnace." Related: Puddled; puddling.

n. 1 A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. (from 14th c.) 2 (context now dialectal English) stagnant or polluted water. (from 16th c.) 3 A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight. (from 18th c.) vb. 1 To form a puddle. 2 To play or splash in a puddle. 3 To process iron by means of puddling. 4 To line a canal with puddle (clay). 5 To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation. 6 To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water. 7 To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

1. v. wade or dabble in a puddle; "The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard"

2. subject to puddling or form by puddling; "puddle iron"

3. dip into mud before planting; "puddle young plants"

4. work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud

5. mess around, as in a liquid or paste; "The children are having fun puddling in paint"

6. make into a puddle; "puddled mire" [syn: muddle]

7. make a puddle by splashing water

8. mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: addle, muddle]

9. eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water]

1. n. a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry

2. a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid; "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood" [syn: pool]

3. something resembling a pool of liquid; "he stood in a pool of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines" [syn: pool]

A puddle is a small accumulation of liquid, usually water, on a surface. It can form either by pooling in a depression on the surface, or by surface tension upon a flat surface.

A puddle is generally shallow enough to walk through, and too small to support a boat or raft. Puddles can be a source of fascination for children. Small wildlife may be attracted to puddles.

Puddle is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Neko Entertainment and published by Konami for PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Xbox 360. The game was also self-published by Neko Entertainment for Wii U, and for the PC through Steam, GOG.com, and Desura.

Puddle is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in February 1952.

Since 1936, Escher’s work had become primarily focused on paradoxes, tessellation and other abstract visual concepts. This print, however, is a realistic depiction of a simple image that portrays two perspectives at once. It depicts an unpaved road with a large pool of water in the middle of it at twilight. Turning the print upside-down and focusing strictly on the reflection in the water, it becomes a depiction of a forest with a full moon overhead. The road is soft and muddy and in it there are two distinctly different sets of tire tracks, two sets of footprints going in opposite directions and two bicycle tracks. Escher has thus captured three elements: the water, sky and earth.

A puddle is a small accumulation of liquid on a surface.

Puddle may also refer to:

• Puddle clay, a type of waterproof cement
• Puddle (M. C. Escher), a woodcut by M.C. Escher
• Weld puddle, a crucial part of the welding process
• Puddle of Mudd, an American post-grunge band
• In rowing, an oval patch of disturbed water indicative of rowing skill
• Puddle (video game)
• The Puddle, the New Zealand music group
• Puddletag, a metadata editor for many audio file formats
• Puddles the Clown, the stage name of Michael Geier, and the associated band Puddles Pity Party

Puddling may refer to:

• Puddling (metallurgy), an obsolete method for purifying pig iron
• Puddling furnace, a metalmaking technology to create wrought iron from the pig iron produced in a blast furnace
• Puddling (engineering), a method for producing waterproof puddle or lining an existing area with puddle clay
• Puddling (biology), the process by which butterflies extract nutrients from damp surfaces
• Puddling (agriculture), wet tillage of rice paddies to prepare them for rice planting