单词 | puddled |
释义 | puddledadj. 1. Of water: muddied or polluted, esp. by being disturbed. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. In extended use: confused, disordered. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective] confusec1384 yblent1426 intermellé1487 farraginary1538 puddled1559 confused1576 promiscuous1579 pell-mell1584 ravelleda1586 mingle-mangle1589 rumblingc1598 skimble-skamble1598 huddle1601 plundered1601 promiscual1602 jumbled1611 promiscous1656 bedevilled1755 helter-skelter1785 muddly1829 hugger-mugger1840 wildered1853 pied1870 deurmekaar1871 mixed-up1888 screwed-up1942 snafu1942 scrambled1951 untogether1969 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > full of sediment fata1387 puddled1559 roiled1611 roil1658 scuddy1797 riley1805 roily1823 riled1830 the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > cloudy or opaque > specific muddy or turbid druvya1300 drublya1340 oozya1398 feculent1471 troublous1495 mudlya1500 drumlya1522 troublish?1527 puddled1559 puddly1559 suddy1587 muddy1590 droumy1605 muddled1624 turbid1626 turbidous1628 puddlish1633 muddied1642 scuddy1797 roily1823 blundered1855 jumbly1864 mudded1898 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 17 Fill a great pot with the puddled water [L. aqua turbida]. 1593 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia ii. 246 Here..nor flatterers venomous insinuations, Nor comming humorists puddled opinions,..Nor trifling title of vanity dazleth us. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 174 Great pailes of puddled myre. View more context for this quotation 1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 221 The reeks and fumes of thy puddled brain. 1679 L. Hutchinson Order & Disorder Pref. p. ii Lest..that any of the pudled water, my wanton youth drew from the prophane Helicon of ancient Poets, should be sprinkled about the world. 1778 Trip to Melasge II. ix. 16 It [sc. dust] may be perfectly agreeable, and well adapted to the constitutions of the Melasgeans, helping their digestion probably, as puddled water aids the digestive faculties of cattle. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. i. 5 Spouting out torrents of puddled politics from his mouth. 1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian ii. iv. §2. 172 Better go to the..pure original spring..than drink from puddled streams. 1898 N. Munro John Splendid 91 Playing well content among puddled snow. 2000 G. P. Firmat in H. Augenbraum & M. F. Olmos U.S. Latino Lit. ix. 96 His mysterious illness, which his mother attributes to drinking puddled water, is labeled only a ‘Cuban infection’..carried by everpresent microbios. 2. Turned or formed into a puddle or puddles; filled or covered with puddles. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > ground > [adjective] > wet weta900 wateryOE irrigate?a1412 waterish1540 irriguate1632 irriguous1651 springish1663 spewy1669 puddleda1721 swashy1796 puddly1843 a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 15 Wash it down with puddl'd Rain. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 21 One..let the fragment of his torch fall hissing on the puddled ground. 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia iii. 67 All were wet from paddling through the puddled ground. 1909 Daily Chron. 28 June 1/6 The dreary landscape of soddened fields, of puddled paths, of trees with rivulets down their trunks. 1991 W. Horwood Duncton Tales v. 52 Travellers..glad to get through its puddled, dripping, dark way and into the light of the sky. 1995 Atlantic Oct. 86/1 A watercolor she's doing of puddled dew in the forenoon shade of that same deck. 3. Of earth, esp. clay: worked with water to form a watertight material (cf. puddle v. 4a); spec. made into puddle (puddle n. 3b). Also: lined with puddle. Now chiefly in puddled clay. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [adjective] > other attributes of clay tempered1697 lean1754 unvitrescible1783 exfodiated1795 puddled1796 white-burning1875 wedged1903 1796 Trans. Soc. Arts 14 240 Earth in this puddled state becomes so dense as to resist the impression of water, which can by no means penetrate it. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers I. 353 The canal..is confined within a puddled channel to prevent leakage. 1871 Daily News 21 Sept. A very considerable quantity of the puddled clay..had been removed. 1968 D. D. Gladwin & J. M. White Eng. Canals ii. ii. 36 Brindley's famous Barton Aqueduct..was constructed of stone with a puddled clay bed. 1987 E. G. Holland Coniston Copper (BNC) 115 It was then to be infilled with debris and sealed with puddled clay to prevent water falling into workings below. 4. Metallurgy. Designating or consisting of iron which has undergone puddling (puddling n. 4) to remove impurities. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [adjective] > iron in specific form faggotedc1670 puddled1838 channel-shaped1855 shingled1884 1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. 49 The puddled ball to be put under the shingling hammer and rolled into rough bars, by some called ‘puddled bars’. 1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 179 The production of puddled steel. 1916 L. S. Marks Mech. Engineers' Handbk. vi. 469 Puddled iron is much improved in quality by being cut up, piled, reheated, and rolled or hammered. 1936 E. A. Atkins & A. G. Walker Electr. Arc & Oxy-acetylene Welding (ed. 3) xviii. 267 In the manufacturing of wrought iron, the pig iron..is simply puddled in a pasty form for the removal of a fair proportion of its impurities. The puddled ball or bloom is then removed to be hammered and rolled. 1998 Technol. & Culture 39 392 From 1815 to 1845, before puddled iron reached America, the export of Swedish bar iron across the Atlantic compensated for the losses in the British market. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1559 |
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