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puddled, ppl. a.|ˈpʌd(ə)ld|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Rendered muddy or turbid by stirring, as water in a puddle; dirty, miry, foul. Also fig. (formerly sometimes, Muddled, confused, puzzled).
1559Morwyng Evonym. 17 Fill a great pot with the puddled water. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 173 Great pailes of puddled myre. 1651H. More Second Lash in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 221 The reeks and fumes of thy puddled brain. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. i. (1869) 5 Spouting out torrents of puddled politics from his mouth. 1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. ii. iv. §2. 172 Better go to the..pure original spring..than drink from puddled streams.
2. Turned into or filled with puddles.
1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xvi, One..let the fragment of his torch fall hissing on the puddled ground. 1867Baker Nile Tribut. iii. 67 All were wet from paddling through the puddled ground.
3. Converted into puddle (n. 4); covered or lined with puddled clay so as to be water-tight.
1796Trans. Soc. Arts XIV. 240 Earth in this puddled state becomes so dense as to resist the impression of water, which can by no means penetrate it. 1861Smiles Engineers I. 353 The canal..is confined within a puddled channel to prevent leakage. 1871Daily News 21 Sept., A very considerable quantity of the puddled clay..had been removed.
4. Iron Manuf. Purified from carbon and rendered malleable by stirring up and turning over in a reverberatory furnace: see prec. 5, 7.
1838Simms Public Wks. Gt. Brit. 49 The puddled ball to be put under the shingling hammer and rolled into rough bars, by some called ‘puddled bars’. 1861Fairbairn Iron 179 The production of puddled steel. |