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puddling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puddling \Pud"dling\, n.
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(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. See Puddle, n.,
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2. (Metal.) The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities.
Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling.
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
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. 4 (context metallurgy historical English) The first true industrial process to produce steel from pig iron. 5 A group of mallard (ducks). vb. (present participle of puddle English)
Wikipedia
Puddling was one step in one of the most important processes of making the first appreciable volumes of high-grade bar iron (malleable wrought iron) during the Industrial Revolution. In the original puddling technique, molten iron in a reverberatory furnace was stirred with rods, which were consumed in the process. It was one of the first processes for making bar iron without charcoal in Europe, although much earlier coal-based processes had existed in China. Eventually, the furnace would be used to make small quantities of specialty steels.
Though it was not the first process to produce bar iron without charcoal, puddling was by far the most successful, and replaced the earlier potting and stamping processes, as well as the much older charcoal finery and bloomery processes. This enabled a great expansion of iron production to take place in Great Britain, and shortly afterwards, in North America. That expansion constitutes the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution so far as the iron industry is concerned. Most 19th century applications of wrought iron, including the Eiffel Tower, bridges, and the original framework of the Statue of Liberty, used puddled iron.
Later the furnaces were also used to produce a good-quality carbon steel; this was a highly skilled art, but both high-carbon and low-carbon steels were successfully produced on a small scale, particularly for the gateway technology of tool steel as well as high quality swords, knives and other weapons.
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,
Puddling is the tillage of rice paddies while flooded, an ancient practice that is used to prepare for rice cultivation. Historically, this has been accomplished by dragging a weighted harrow across a flooded paddy field behind a buffalo or ox, and is now accomplished using mechanized approaches, often using a walking tractor.
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.