Puddle

(noun.) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry.

(verb.) make a puddle by splashing water.

(verb.) mess around, as in a liquid or paste; 'The children are having fun puddling in paint'.

(verb.) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud.

(verb.) dip into mud before planting; 'puddle young plants'.

(verb.) subject to puddling or form by puddling; 'puddle iron'.

(verb.) wade or dabble in a puddle; 'The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard'.

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• This puddle is an important source of the Jordan. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Why, they were never masters of anything liquid larger than a puddle. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• At which the children got up from the puddle instantly, and ran off to pay their court to Peggy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The puddles which collect at the foot of a hill after a storm are muddy because of the particles of soil gathered by the water as it runs down the hill. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is not four feet deep anywhere, and it is all puddles and pools. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This process of puddling lasted for about an hour and a half and entailed extremely severe labour on the workman. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This process is called _puddling_, and consists in exposing the molten metal to an oxidizing current of flame and air. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In 1784 Henry Cort of England introduced the puddling process and grooved rolls. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A much more thorough and satisfactory result in the production of a pure malleable iron is thus obtained than is possible by hand puddling. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Puddling had been invented, but not successfully used before. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Henry Cort and Puddling, 1784, and its Subsequent Wonderful Value. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• To bring it into wrought iron, which is malleable and ductile, it is puddled and refined, which involves chiefly the burning out of the carbon and silicon. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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