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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.

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.

containing it dissolves humus, forming a dark-colored solution which, when it collects in puddles and evaporates, produces characteristic black spots.

a form of squeezer for the puddle ball;

A pool or puddle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

mary. -- Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.…

The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle. Bp. Hall.

int, etc. -- Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones. -- Mil…

& Fl. Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once. -- Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. Knight.

A small pool of standing water; a puddle. Bacon. "These shallow plashes." Barrow.

A small pond or pool; a puddle.

Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth.

A puddle; a plash. Skinner.

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. "The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell." Shak.

ous to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material.

Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul. "Thick puddly water." Carew.

Puddled steel. [U. S. ]

A machine for shingling puddled iron.