Puddling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Purification of impure metal, especially pig iron, by heating and stirring in an oxidizing atmosphere.
  • n. Compaction of wet material, such as clay, in order to make a watertight paste.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The action of making a puddle.
  • n. The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids.
  • n. The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight.
  • n. The first true industrial process to produce steel from pig iron.
  • n. A group of mallards (ducks).
  • v. Present participle of puddle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Puddle. See puddle, n., 2.
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In hydraul, engin., the operation of working plastic clay behind piling in a cofferdam, the lining of a canal, or in other situation, to prevent the penetration of water; also, the clay or other material used in this operation.
  • n. The operation of transforming pig-iron into wrought-iron in a reverberatory furnace.
    • Word Usage
    "However, by "puddling" I managed to make a small dam which would at night collect enough water to admit of a limited amount of panning or cradling by day."
    Cross Reference
    mechanical puddling   
    Variant
    puddle   
    Verb Stem
    puddle   
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