Verb (used without object) : The children were puddling. ,The backyard was puddling. From Dictionary.com.
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. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference
Improvement in the conditions of the work of puddling. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
There was no mess of blood puddling around the exhibit. From Wordnik.com. [DarklyDreamingDexter]
Tears were running down her face and puddling on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Cube Route]
As in columns, careful puddling is essential in pouring beams. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
We can see puddling occurring as water backs up through the system. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference
You look right down there and it is just a wet mess, puddling going on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2007] Reference
There's some tree limbs down on the roadways and puddling on the roadways. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006] Reference
Placing and tamping are therefore, essentially pouring and puddling operations. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
As the flow line rises higher each season, the puddling will be continued to the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170] Reference
The material operated on in puddling is iron containing from 2½ to 4 per cent. of carbon. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference
We first remark two puddling halls, each of which contains 50 furnaces and 9 steam hammers. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
Tamping and puddling still left a filtration of 12 in. per day, with a tendency to increase. From Wordnik.com. [The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170] Reference
Jersey City, had the pleasure of "puddling it up" through the snow to the railway carriages. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Then he slid to the pavement and sat there in the puddling blood, his face against the wire. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
I suppose he could remember Alexander at a year old, tumbling about and puddling on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
And some places that are on the uphill rise still actually have no puddling on them whatsoever. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference
The roasted ore is then melted in a small blast furnace or in an open one like a puddling furnace. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
The term is puddling, and scientists believe that the butterflies are doing it to get vital nutrients. From Wordnik.com. [fishbuttocks Diary Entry] Reference
The advantages of this system, which permits of expediting all the operations of puddling, are as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
Sharpe stepped across the cannon's trail, around the puddling blood, then ran at the door of the Angel Tower. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
The most western iron plant -- puddling furnaces and a rolling mill -- is situated on the outskirts of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
In the Wilson process the conditions which we have noted in the puddling operation are very closely approximated. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference
Waves lapped, then flowed in a rapidly thickening stream, puddling out about the shell as the wolverines drew back, snarling. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Then the charge is carried forward by the workmen to the front hearth, in which the temperature of a puddling furnace prevails. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference
The next process is "boiling," which is a modification of "puddling," and is generally used in the best iron-works in this country. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
Bessemer converters, it is preferred in open hearth and crucible steel furnaces, and is said to be vastly superior to coal for puddling. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference
The total puddling, to date, covering two seasons, is equivalent to 11,150 days 'work of one cow, and covers an area of 1,500,000 sq. ft. From Wordnik.com. [The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170] Reference
As far as damage is concerned, really just some tree limbs down, some debris in the roadways and quite a bit of puddling on the roadways. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006] Reference
The iron obtained by puddling is not as yet in its definite state, but the rolling mill completes what the puddling hall does in the rough. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
The milky way's tide pool spilled a kelp forest of living stars onto the overreaching sidewalks of dingy Harrison Avenue like a warm puddling friend. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Below Climax] Reference
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