Definition of puddle in English:

puddle

noun ˈpʌd(ə)lˈpədl

1A small pool of liquid, especially of rainwater on the ground.
（尤指雨水积成的）水坑，泥潭
splashing through deep puddles
淌水走过深水坑。
figurative a little puddle of light
〈喻〉一片亮光。
Example sentencesExamples
- It lay in a puddle of rainwater on the asphalt ground.
- From a deep gash in her forehead, blood trickled down the side of her face and along her neck, spilling to the ground to form a small puddle of the red liquid.
- With recent heavy rains the ground is even more saturated now and massive puddles of rainwater cover a large percentage of the site.
- To save their broods, they dig canals between dwindling puddles and deeper pools.
- The puddles on the ground were opaque and black.
- Lacy was left lying on the ground, in a puddle of mud, naturally.
- Little children carrying large bags and lunch baskets jump the two feet to the ground from the van, in the mornings, hop over puddles of rainwater, to streak into the classrooms.
- They reached the power supply room to find puddles of blue liquid all over the floor.
- I looked down to see that I was standing in a puddle of liquid that had not been there a minute before.
- Suddenly, a puddle of water pooled on the snowy ground, before Haywood's feet.
- He was dripping water onto the ground, and there was a puddle of rain water forming around his feet.
- We can teach them that a puddle of fresh rainwater is unpleasantly wet and cold or that playing in it can be fun.
- Rainwater resulted in puddles and kids merrily played with paper boats.
- At one point, he almost slipped in a greasy puddle of liquid.
- The street lights lit up the puddles on the roadsides as if they were pools of liquid light.
- Lights from above illuminated the puddles of refuse and rain water.
- We splashed through little puddles and ankle deep bowls.
- The morning sun shone brightly and its gaze reflected in the morning dew and puddles on the ground.
- Liquid puddles of god knows what all over the place.
- Amazingly I managed to avoid stepping in any really deep puddles and drowning.
Synonyms
pool, spill, splash
literary plash
2mass noun Clay and sand mixed with water and used as a watertight covering for embankments.
胶土（用黏土、沙和水而成，用来助堤坝防水）
Example sentencesExamples
- Can your controller and receiver survive being dunked in a typical construction-site puddle?
- This puddle or engineering clay is used extensively for the construction of lakes and ponds and is of excellent quality.
3Rowing
A circular patch of disturbed water made by the blade of an oar at each stroke.
〔划船〕（划桨激起的）漩涡
Example sentencesExamples
- My blade was even leaving puddles in its wake, which is apparently a good sign.
- In a good eight, when stroke seat's oar hits the water, the boat will be past the puddles left by bow seat's oar on the previous stroke.
- Rowers who pull hard will leave a large puddle behind their finish.

verb ˈpʌd(ə)lˈpədl

[with object]

1Wet or cover (a surface) with water, especially rainwater.
（尤指雨水）弄湿；覆盖
the cobbles under our feet were wet and puddled
我们脚底下的鹅卵石湿漉漉的。
Example sentencesExamples
- If this land is agreed to be a very important site and should change into an exciting public place, contributing to the listed buildings and the vibrancy of that area, it can't continue as an uneven, puddled car park.
- And she is also running from the gods who have changed the sky to fire and puddled the earth with skin and blood.
- In the rainy months, a symphony of leaks puddled her floor, though she never cared, plashing through, with a duck's insouciance.
- And here was a man puddling the ground with his own blood for me!
1. 1.1no object (of liquid) form a small pool.
  （液体）形成水潭
  rivulets of water coursed down the panes, puddling on the sill
  水顺着窗框流下，窗台上积了一摊水。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
  Watering from the bottom directs the water to the root zone and prevents puddling on the soil surface, which could lead to damping-off.
  Even if the water hasn't puddled, look for regular discoloration of the sand.
  Since the water was puddling on the floor near a wall/floor intersection, the consultant initially thought the water might have been coming from below.
  Each ring is saturated with different quantities of blood, some thickly puddled and others so faint that the dried liquid clings to the outer circumferences.
  Rafe dipped his finger into the blood that had puddled on the floor.
  He could feel the blood puddling from the broken wound, soiling his shirt and pants.
  Do not apply excessive amounts so that the spray puddles on the floors.
  The blood was puddling on the floor, staining the old wooden floorboards, sinking into them permanently and painting them an eerie shade of crimson.
  So many rejected dresses thrown aside as she packed: they floated down to the bed and puddled in chairs after she left the room.
  I wrung my own dripping locks, water puddling at my black ankle boots.
  Prevent makeup from puddling in its tube by storing it in an air-conditioned room or popping it in your fridge.
  Mostly because I can't be bothered getting up at 5: 30 to exercise every morning, which is the only time when it's cool enough for me to jog without sweat puddling in my sneakers.
  Applying more than 0.2 inch may result in water puddling or running off the site rather than just wetting the plants and infiltrating into the soil.
  I enjoyed an article written a couple of years ago about puddling on flat roofs.
  Stones melted like butter, sagging, dripping and puddling.
  The applicator thoroughly soaks each moss spot until it puddles with the mixture by holding the nozzle about 1 inch from the surface.
  Tears puddled underneath her head on the white butcher paper lining the inspection table, and I hugged her arms and held her head in my hands as I let go of my own emotion and cried in rhythm with her tears.
  Yellowish wine puddles on the table and drops onto his skirt.
2. 1.2archaic no object Dabble or wallow in mud or shallow water.
  〈古〉（在泥潭、浅水滩）打滚
  children are playing and puddling about in the dirt
  孩子们嬉戏着，在泥潭中滚作一团。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Anyway, my last week of surfing was punctuated by fun puddling about in the small waters of Kuta Beach.
  A place still firmly rooted in old-time Americana, where kids puddle around in the shallows and dogs lap up fallen ice cream cones.
  We actually were puddling around in a metre and a half of water, with water up to our chests, coaxing cows along fence lines and onto races and back to safety.
3. 1.3puddle about/aroundinformal no object Occupy oneself in a disorganized or unproductive way.
  〈非正式〉瞎忙
  the Internet is just the latest excuse for puddling around at work
  互联网只不过是工作中瞎忙的最新借口。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some twirled around while others puddled about forcing some of the pedestrians to stop and take note of their revelry.
  Started puddling around home as a kid in a Sabot I built.
  Possibly the global criminal infrastructure would collapse and they would retire to puddling around in their gardens looking after their azaleas.
  Synonyms
  fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around
2Line (a hole) with puddle.
用胶土填（洞）
he dug and puddled a large pond
Example sentencesExamples
- Brindley used an old process called puddling which lined the sides and bottom of a canal with clay mixed with water.
- They were constructed with sloping sides, flat bottomed and lined with puddled clay.
1. 2.1 Knead (clay and sand) into puddle.
  把（黏土和沙）捣成胶土
2. 2.2 Work (mixed water and clay) to separate gold or opal.
  处理（混合的水和黏土）将金（或蛋白石）分离
  Example sentencesExamples
  The prospector then puddled the mixture. This means he placed the pan in flowing water, broke up the clay with his hands and mixed it with the water so that the water washed the clay away.
  Some hillsides may have been ‘surfaced’. That is, all the gold bearing gravel and dirt lifted and carried away to be puddled for its gold content.
3. 2.3usually as noun puddlinghistorical Stir (molten iron) with iron oxide in a furnace, to produce wrought iron by oxidizing carbon.
  〈主史〉搅炼（熔化的铁水）
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the 1780s, Henry Cort developed the puddling furnace, which allowed pig iron to be refined in turn with coke.
  In the late 18th cent. the Cranage brothers, Peter Onions, and Henry Cort applied coke to the puddling process in producing bar iron.

Derivatives

puddler

noun ˈpʌd(ə)ləˈpədlər

Trade unions of skilled iron molders, puddlers, and textile workers joined forces with struggling societies of artisan craftsmen - printers, shoemakers, and tailors.
Example sentencesExamples
- Sykes, a father-of-four, had been laid off from his job as a puddler at a Rotherham iron works in 1865, forcing him to turn to poaching to stave off destitution.
- William had progressed at work and had been promoted to the position of a puddler and was getting fairly good wages.
- Skilled ironworkers (‘puddlers’) could ‘stir’ molten pig iron in a large vat, raking off refined iron for further processing.

puddly

adjective ˈpʌd(ə)liˈpədli

Luckily I largely managed to avoid the rain today, but the path by the river was very muddy and puddly and my feet were soaking.
Example sentencesExamples
- I hate it when girls get all sappy and puddly too, it drives me completely insane because I would NEVER do anything like that!
- Today, when the world is drippy, puddly and weeping with rain, leaden with clouds and hazy memories of sunshine, one stays home and tends to domestic gardens, such as laundry, stove-scrubbing, and floor-mopping.
- Turning onto the driveway you come to a rolling stop, left with no choice but to contemplate the puddly stream that marks the crossing into this whole other world.
- If the great god Poseidon made a record it could not be wetter than the puddly emanations of this Irish good-for-nothing, a member of that lowest of all pop castes the singer-songwriter.

Origin

Middle English: diminutive of Old English pudd 'ditch, furrow'; compare with German dialect Pfudel 'pool'.

Old English had a word pudd ‘ditch, furrow’, and a puddle was originally a small one of these. Pool, ‘standing water’ goes back to the same West Germanic root. The common Germanic heritage comes out in German Pudel(hund) the origin of the poodle (late 18th century). Poodle sometimes has the sense ‘lackey’, introduced when Lloyd George called Lord Balfour a poodle in Parliament in 1907. The colloquial verb poodle meaning ‘go around in a leisurely manner’ is found from the 1930s.

Rhymes

befuddle, cuddle, fuddle, huddle, muddle, ruddle

Definition of puddle in US English:

puddle

nounˈpədlˈpədl

1A small pool of liquid, especially of rainwater on the ground.
（尤指雨水积成的）水坑，泥潭
splashing through deep puddles
淌水走过深水坑。
figurative a little puddle of light
〈喻〉一片亮光。
Example sentencesExamples
- I looked down to see that I was standing in a puddle of liquid that had not been there a minute before.
- Amazingly I managed to avoid stepping in any really deep puddles and drowning.
- Liquid puddles of god knows what all over the place.
- The morning sun shone brightly and its gaze reflected in the morning dew and puddles on the ground.
- Suddenly, a puddle of water pooled on the snowy ground, before Haywood's feet.
- We can teach them that a puddle of fresh rainwater is unpleasantly wet and cold or that playing in it can be fun.
- Rainwater resulted in puddles and kids merrily played with paper boats.
- It lay in a puddle of rainwater on the asphalt ground.
- He was dripping water onto the ground, and there was a puddle of rain water forming around his feet.
- To save their broods, they dig canals between dwindling puddles and deeper pools.
- They reached the power supply room to find puddles of blue liquid all over the floor.
- Lacy was left lying on the ground, in a puddle of mud, naturally.
- We splashed through little puddles and ankle deep bowls.
- At one point, he almost slipped in a greasy puddle of liquid.
- Lights from above illuminated the puddles of refuse and rain water.
- With recent heavy rains the ground is even more saturated now and massive puddles of rainwater cover a large percentage of the site.
- The street lights lit up the puddles on the roadsides as if they were pools of liquid light.
- The puddles on the ground were opaque and black.
- Little children carrying large bags and lunch baskets jump the two feet to the ground from the van, in the mornings, hop over puddles of rainwater, to streak into the classrooms.
- From a deep gash in her forehead, blood trickled down the side of her face and along her neck, spilling to the ground to form a small puddle of the red liquid.
Synonyms
pool, spill, splash
2Clay and sand mixed with water and used as a watertight covering for embankments.
胶土（用黏土、沙和水而成，用来助堤坝防水）
Example sentencesExamples
- Can your controller and receiver survive being dunked in a typical construction-site puddle?
- This puddle or engineering clay is used extensively for the construction of lakes and ponds and is of excellent quality.

verbˈpədlˈpədl

[with object]

1Wet or cover (a surface) with water, especially rainwater.
（尤指雨水）弄湿；覆盖
the cobbles under our feet were wet and puddled
我们脚底下的鹅卵石湿漉漉的。
Example sentencesExamples
- And here was a man puddling the ground with his own blood for me!
- In the rainy months, a symphony of leaks puddled her floor, though she never cared, plashing through, with a duck's insouciance.
- If this land is agreed to be a very important site and should change into an exciting public place, contributing to the listed buildings and the vibrancy of that area, it can't continue as an uneven, puddled car park.
- And she is also running from the gods who have changed the sky to fire and puddled the earth with skin and blood.
1. 1.1no object (of liquid) form a small pool.
  （液体）形成水潭
  rivulets of water coursed down the panes, puddling on the sill
  水顺着窗框流下，窗台上积了一摊水。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Each ring is saturated with different quantities of blood, some thickly puddled and others so faint that the dried liquid clings to the outer circumferences.
  The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
  Watering from the bottom directs the water to the root zone and prevents puddling on the soil surface, which could lead to damping-off.
  I enjoyed an article written a couple of years ago about puddling on flat roofs.
  I wrung my own dripping locks, water puddling at my black ankle boots.
  Prevent makeup from puddling in its tube by storing it in an air-conditioned room or popping it in your fridge.
  So many rejected dresses thrown aside as she packed: they floated down to the bed and puddled in chairs after she left the room.
  The blood was puddling on the floor, staining the old wooden floorboards, sinking into them permanently and painting them an eerie shade of crimson.
  He could feel the blood puddling from the broken wound, soiling his shirt and pants.
  The applicator thoroughly soaks each moss spot until it puddles with the mixture by holding the nozzle about 1 inch from the surface.
  Do not apply excessive amounts so that the spray puddles on the floors.
  Since the water was puddling on the floor near a wall/floor intersection, the consultant initially thought the water might have been coming from below.
  Even if the water hasn't puddled, look for regular discoloration of the sand.
  Rafe dipped his finger into the blood that had puddled on the floor.
  Yellowish wine puddles on the table and drops onto his skirt.
  Tears puddled underneath her head on the white butcher paper lining the inspection table, and I hugged her arms and held her head in my hands as I let go of my own emotion and cried in rhythm with her tears.
  Mostly because I can't be bothered getting up at 5: 30 to exercise every morning, which is the only time when it's cool enough for me to jog without sweat puddling in my sneakers.
  Stones melted like butter, sagging, dripping and puddling.
  Applying more than 0.2 inch may result in water puddling or running off the site rather than just wetting the plants and infiltrating into the soil.
2. 1.2archaic no object Dabble or wallow in mud or shallow water.
  〈古〉（在泥潭、浅水滩）打滚
  children are playing and puddling about in the dirt
  孩子们嬉戏着，在泥潭中滚作一团。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A place still firmly rooted in old-time Americana, where kids puddle around in the shallows and dogs lap up fallen ice cream cones.
  We actually were puddling around in a metre and a half of water, with water up to our chests, coaxing cows along fence lines and onto races and back to safety.
  Anyway, my last week of surfing was punctuated by fun puddling about in the small waters of Kuta Beach.
3. 1.3puddle around/aboutinformal no object Occupy oneself in a disorganized or unproductive way.
  〈非正式〉瞎忙
  the Internet is just the latest excuse for puddling around at work
  互联网只不过是工作中瞎忙的最新借口。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Possibly the global criminal infrastructure would collapse and they would retire to puddling around in their gardens looking after their azaleas.
  Started puddling around home as a kid in a Sabot I built.
  Some twirled around while others puddled about forcing some of the pedestrians to stop and take note of their revelry.
  Synonyms
  fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around
2Line (a hole) with puddle.
用胶土填（洞）
Example sentencesExamples
- They were constructed with sloping sides, flat bottomed and lined with puddled clay.
- Brindley used an old process called puddling which lined the sides and bottom of a canal with clay mixed with water.
1. 2.1 Knead (clay and sand) into puddle.
  把（黏土和沙）捣成胶土
2. 2.2 Work (mixed water and clay) to separate gold or opal.
  处理（混合的水和黏土）将金（或蛋白石）分离
  Example sentencesExamples
  The prospector then puddled the mixture. This means he placed the pan in flowing water, broke up the clay with his hands and mixed it with the water so that the water washed the clay away.
  Some hillsides may have been ‘surfaced’. That is, all the gold bearing gravel and dirt lifted and carried away to be puddled for its gold content.
3. 2.3usually as noun puddlinghistorical Stir (molten iron) with iron oxide in a furnace, to produce wrought iron by oxidizing carbon.
  〈主史〉搅炼（熔化的铁水）
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the 1780s, Henry Cort developed the puddling furnace, which allowed pig iron to be refined in turn with coke.
  In the late 18th cent. the Cranage brothers, Peter Onions, and Henry Cort applied coke to the puddling process in producing bar iron.

Origin

Middle English: diminutive of Old English pudd ‘ditch, furrow’; compare with German dialect Pfudel ‘pool’.

单词	puddle
释义	Definition of puddle in English: puddle noun ˈpʌd(ə)lˈpədl 1A small pool of liquid, especially of rainwater on the ground. （尤指雨水积成的）水坑，泥潭 splashing through deep puddles 淌水走过深水坑。 figurative a little puddle of light 〈喻〉一片亮光。 Example sentencesExamples It lay in a puddle of rainwater on the asphalt ground. From a deep gash in her forehead, blood trickled down the side of her face and along her neck, spilling to the ground to form a small puddle of the red liquid. With recent heavy rains the ground is even more saturated now and massive puddles of rainwater cover a large percentage of the site. To save their broods, they dig canals between dwindling puddles and deeper pools. The puddles on the ground were opaque and black. Lacy was left lying on the ground, in a puddle of mud, naturally. Little children carrying large bags and lunch baskets jump the two feet to the ground from the van, in the mornings, hop over puddles of rainwater, to streak into the classrooms. They reached the power supply room to find puddles of blue liquid all over the floor. I looked down to see that I was standing in a puddle of liquid that had not been there a minute before. Suddenly, a puddle of water pooled on the snowy ground, before Haywood's feet. He was dripping water onto the ground, and there was a puddle of rain water forming around his feet. We can teach them that a puddle of fresh rainwater is unpleasantly wet and cold or that playing in it can be fun. Rainwater resulted in puddles and kids merrily played with paper boats. At one point, he almost slipped in a greasy puddle of liquid. The street lights lit up the puddles on the roadsides as if they were pools of liquid light. Lights from above illuminated the puddles of refuse and rain water. We splashed through little puddles and ankle deep bowls. The morning sun shone brightly and its gaze reflected in the morning dew and puddles on the ground. Liquid puddles of god knows what all over the place. Amazingly I managed to avoid stepping in any really deep puddles and drowning. Synonyms pool, spill, splash literary plash 2mass noun Clay and sand mixed with water and used as a watertight covering for embankments. 胶土（用黏土、沙和水而成，用来助堤坝防水） Example sentencesExamples Can your controller and receiver survive being dunked in a typical construction-site puddle? This puddle or engineering clay is used extensively for the construction of lakes and ponds and is of excellent quality. 3Rowing A circular patch of disturbed water made by the blade of an oar at each stroke. 〔划船〕（划桨激起的）漩涡 Example sentencesExamples My blade was even leaving puddles in its wake, which is apparently a good sign. In a good eight, when stroke seat's oar hits the water, the boat will be past the puddles left by bow seat's oar on the previous stroke. Rowers who pull hard will leave a large puddle behind their finish. verb ˈpʌd(ə)lˈpədl [with object] 1Wet or cover (a surface) with water, especially rainwater. （尤指雨水）弄湿；覆盖 the cobbles under our feet were wet and puddled 我们脚底下的鹅卵石湿漉漉的。 Example sentencesExamples If this land is agreed to be a very important site and should change into an exciting public place, contributing to the listed buildings and the vibrancy of that area, it can't continue as an uneven, puddled car park. And she is also running from the gods who have changed the sky to fire and puddled the earth with skin and blood. In the rainy months, a symphony of leaks puddled her floor, though she never cared, plashing through, with a duck's insouciance. And here was a man puddling the ground with his own blood for me! 1.1no object (of liquid) form a small pool. （液体）形成水潭 rivulets of water coursed down the panes, puddling on the sill 水顺着窗框流下，窗台上积了一摊水。 Example sentencesExamples The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled. Watering from the bottom directs the water to the root zone and prevents puddling on the soil surface, which could lead to damping-off. Even if the water hasn't puddled, look for regular discoloration of the sand. Since the water was puddling on the floor near a wall/floor intersection, the consultant initially thought the water might have been coming from below. Each ring is saturated with different quantities of blood, some thickly puddled and others so faint that the dried liquid clings to the outer circumferences. Rafe dipped his finger into the blood that had puddled on the floor. He could feel the blood puddling from the broken wound, soiling his shirt and pants. Do not apply excessive amounts so that the spray puddles on the floors. The blood was puddling on the floor, staining the old wooden floorboards, sinking into them permanently and painting them an eerie shade of crimson. So many rejected dresses thrown aside as she packed: they floated down to the bed and puddled in chairs after she left the room. I wrung my own dripping locks, water puddling at my black ankle boots. Prevent makeup from puddling in its tube by storing it in an air-conditioned room or popping it in your fridge. Mostly because I can't be bothered getting up at 5: 30 to exercise every morning, which is the only time when it's cool enough for me to jog without sweat puddling in my sneakers. Applying more than 0.2 inch may result in water puddling or running off the site rather than just wetting the plants and infiltrating into the soil. I enjoyed an article written a couple of years ago about puddling on flat roofs. Stones melted like butter, sagging, dripping and puddling. The applicator thoroughly soaks each moss spot until it puddles with the mixture by holding the nozzle about 1 inch from the surface. Tears puddled underneath her head on the white butcher paper lining the inspection table, and I hugged her arms and held her head in my hands as I let go of my own emotion and cried in rhythm with her tears. Yellowish wine puddles on the table and drops onto his skirt. 1.2archaic no object Dabble or wallow in mud or shallow water. 〈古〉（在泥潭、浅水滩）打滚 children are playing and puddling about in the dirt 孩子们嬉戏着，在泥潭中滚作一团。 Example sentencesExamples Anyway, my last week of surfing was punctuated by fun puddling about in the small waters of Kuta Beach. A place still firmly rooted in old-time Americana, where kids puddle around in the shallows and dogs lap up fallen ice cream cones. We actually were puddling around in a metre and a half of water, with water up to our chests, coaxing cows along fence lines and onto races and back to safety. 1.3puddle about/aroundinformal no object Occupy oneself in a disorganized or unproductive way. 〈非正式〉瞎忙 the Internet is just the latest excuse for puddling around at work 互联网只不过是工作中瞎忙的最新借口。 Example sentencesExamples Some twirled around while others puddled about forcing some of the pedestrians to stop and take note of their revelry. Started puddling around home as a kid in a Sabot I built. Possibly the global criminal infrastructure would collapse and they would retire to puddling around in their gardens looking after their azaleas. Synonyms fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around 2Line (a hole) with puddle. 用胶土填（洞） he dug and puddled a large pond Example sentencesExamples Brindley used an old process called puddling which lined the sides and bottom of a canal with clay mixed with water. They were constructed with sloping sides, flat bottomed and lined with puddled clay. 2.1 Knead (clay and sand) into puddle. 把（黏土和沙）捣成胶土 2.2 Work (mixed water and clay) to separate gold or opal. 处理（混合的水和黏土）将金（或蛋白石）分离 Example sentencesExamples The prospector then puddled the mixture. This means he placed the pan in flowing water, broke up the clay with his hands and mixed it with the water so that the water washed the clay away. Some hillsides may have been ‘surfaced’. That is, all the gold bearing gravel and dirt lifted and carried away to be puddled for its gold content. 2.3usually as noun puddlinghistorical Stir (molten iron) with iron oxide in a furnace, to produce wrought iron by oxidizing carbon. 〈主史〉搅炼（熔化的铁水） Example sentencesExamples In the 1780s, Henry Cort developed the puddling furnace, which allowed pig iron to be refined in turn with coke. In the late 18th cent. the Cranage brothers, Peter Onions, and Henry Cort applied coke to the puddling process in producing bar iron. Derivatives puddler noun ˈpʌd(ə)ləˈpədlər Trade unions of skilled iron molders, puddlers, and textile workers joined forces with struggling societies of artisan craftsmen - printers, shoemakers, and tailors. Example sentencesExamples Sykes, a father-of-four, had been laid off from his job as a puddler at a Rotherham iron works in 1865, forcing him to turn to poaching to stave off destitution. William had progressed at work and had been promoted to the position of a puddler and was getting fairly good wages. Skilled ironworkers (‘puddlers’) could ‘stir’ molten pig iron in a large vat, raking off refined iron for further processing. puddly adjective ˈpʌd(ə)liˈpədli Luckily I largely managed to avoid the rain today, but the path by the river was very muddy and puddly and my feet were soaking. Example sentencesExamples I hate it when girls get all sappy and puddly too, it drives me completely insane because I would NEVER do anything like that! Today, when the world is drippy, puddly and weeping with rain, leaden with clouds and hazy memories of sunshine, one stays home and tends to domestic gardens, such as laundry, stove-scrubbing, and floor-mopping. Turning onto the driveway you come to a rolling stop, left with no choice but to contemplate the puddly stream that marks the crossing into this whole other world. If the great god Poseidon made a record it could not be wetter than the puddly emanations of this Irish good-for-nothing, a member of that lowest of all pop castes the singer-songwriter. Origin Middle English: diminutive of Old English pudd 'ditch, furrow'; compare with German dialect Pfudel 'pool'. Old English had a word pudd ‘ditch, furrow’, and a puddle was originally a small one of these. Pool, ‘standing water’ goes back to the same West Germanic root. The common Germanic heritage comes out in German Pudel(hund) the origin of the poodle (late 18th century). Poodle sometimes has the sense ‘lackey’, introduced when Lloyd George called Lord Balfour a poodle in Parliament in 1907. The colloquial verb poodle meaning ‘go around in a leisurely manner’ is found from the 1930s. Rhymes befuddle, cuddle, fuddle, huddle, muddle, ruddle Definition of puddle in US English: puddle nounˈpədlˈpədl 1A small pool of liquid, especially of rainwater on the ground. （尤指雨水积成的）水坑，泥潭 splashing through deep puddles 淌水走过深水坑。 figurative a little puddle of light 〈喻〉一片亮光。 Example sentencesExamples I looked down to see that I was standing in a puddle of liquid that had not been there a minute before. Amazingly I managed to avoid stepping in any really deep puddles and drowning. Liquid puddles of god knows what all over the place. The morning sun shone brightly and its gaze reflected in the morning dew and puddles on the ground. Suddenly, a puddle of water pooled on the snowy ground, before Haywood's feet. We can teach them that a puddle of fresh rainwater is unpleasantly wet and cold or that playing in it can be fun. Rainwater resulted in puddles and kids merrily played with paper boats. It lay in a puddle of rainwater on the asphalt ground. He was dripping water onto the ground, and there was a puddle of rain water forming around his feet. To save their broods, they dig canals between dwindling puddles and deeper pools. They reached the power supply room to find puddles of blue liquid all over the floor. Lacy was left lying on the ground, in a puddle of mud, naturally. We splashed through little puddles and ankle deep bowls. At one point, he almost slipped in a greasy puddle of liquid. Lights from above illuminated the puddles of refuse and rain water. With recent heavy rains the ground is even more saturated now and massive puddles of rainwater cover a large percentage of the site. The street lights lit up the puddles on the roadsides as if they were pools of liquid light. The puddles on the ground were opaque and black. Little children carrying large bags and lunch baskets jump the two feet to the ground from the van, in the mornings, hop over puddles of rainwater, to streak into the classrooms. From a deep gash in her forehead, blood trickled down the side of her face and along her neck, spilling to the ground to form a small puddle of the red liquid. Synonyms pool, spill, splash 2Clay and sand mixed with water and used as a watertight covering for embankments. 胶土（用黏土、沙和水而成，用来助堤坝防水） Example sentencesExamples Can your controller and receiver survive being dunked in a typical construction-site puddle? This puddle or engineering clay is used extensively for the construction of lakes and ponds and is of excellent quality. verbˈpədlˈpədl [with object] 1Wet or cover (a surface) with water, especially rainwater. （尤指雨水）弄湿；覆盖 the cobbles under our feet were wet and puddled 我们脚底下的鹅卵石湿漉漉的。 Example sentencesExamples And here was a man puddling the ground with his own blood for me! In the rainy months, a symphony of leaks puddled her floor, though she never cared, plashing through, with a duck's insouciance. If this land is agreed to be a very important site and should change into an exciting public place, contributing to the listed buildings and the vibrancy of that area, it can't continue as an uneven, puddled car park. And she is also running from the gods who have changed the sky to fire and puddled the earth with skin and blood. 1.1no object (of liquid) form a small pool. （液体）形成水潭 rivulets of water coursed down the panes, puddling on the sill 水顺着窗框流下，窗台上积了一摊水。 Example sentencesExamples Each ring is saturated with different quantities of blood, some thickly puddled and others so faint that the dried liquid clings to the outer circumferences. The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled. Watering from the bottom directs the water to the root zone and prevents puddling on the soil surface, which could lead to damping-off. I enjoyed an article written a couple of years ago about puddling on flat roofs. I wrung my own dripping locks, water puddling at my black ankle boots. Prevent makeup from puddling in its tube by storing it in an air-conditioned room or popping it in your fridge. So many rejected dresses thrown aside as she packed: they floated down to the bed and puddled in chairs after she left the room. The blood was puddling on the floor, staining the old wooden floorboards, sinking into them permanently and painting them an eerie shade of crimson. He could feel the blood puddling from the broken wound, soiling his shirt and pants. The applicator thoroughly soaks each moss spot until it puddles with the mixture by holding the nozzle about 1 inch from the surface. Do not apply excessive amounts so that the spray puddles on the floors. Since the water was puddling on the floor near a wall/floor intersection, the consultant initially thought the water might have been coming from below. Even if the water hasn't puddled, look for regular discoloration of the sand. Rafe dipped his finger into the blood that had puddled on the floor. Yellowish wine puddles on the table and drops onto his skirt. Tears puddled underneath her head on the white butcher paper lining the inspection table, and I hugged her arms and held her head in my hands as I let go of my own emotion and cried in rhythm with her tears. Mostly because I can't be bothered getting up at 5: 30 to exercise every morning, which is the only time when it's cool enough for me to jog without sweat puddling in my sneakers. Stones melted like butter, sagging, dripping and puddling. Applying more than 0.2 inch may result in water puddling or running off the site rather than just wetting the plants and infiltrating into the soil. 1.2archaic no object Dabble or wallow in mud or shallow water. 〈古〉（在泥潭、浅水滩）打滚 children are playing and puddling about in the dirt 孩子们嬉戏着，在泥潭中滚作一团。 Example sentencesExamples A place still firmly rooted in old-time Americana, where kids puddle around in the shallows and dogs lap up fallen ice cream cones. We actually were puddling around in a metre and a half of water, with water up to our chests, coaxing cows along fence lines and onto races and back to safety. Anyway, my last week of surfing was punctuated by fun puddling about in the small waters of Kuta Beach. 1.3puddle around/aboutinformal no object Occupy oneself in a disorganized or unproductive way. 〈非正式〉瞎忙 the Internet is just the latest excuse for puddling around at work 互联网只不过是工作中瞎忙的最新借口。 Example sentencesExamples Possibly the global criminal infrastructure would collapse and they would retire to puddling around in their gardens looking after their azaleas. Started puddling around home as a kid in a Sabot I built. Some twirled around while others puddled about forcing some of the pedestrians to stop and take note of their revelry. Synonyms fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around 2Line (a hole) with puddle. 用胶土填（洞） Example sentencesExamples They were constructed with sloping sides, flat bottomed and lined with puddled clay. Brindley used an old process called puddling which lined the sides and bottom of a canal with clay mixed with water. 2.1 Knead (clay and sand) into puddle. 把（黏土和沙）捣成胶土 2.2 Work (mixed water and clay) to separate gold or opal. 处理（混合的水和黏土）将金（或蛋白石）分离 Example sentencesExamples The prospector then puddled the mixture. This means he placed the pan in flowing water, broke up the clay with his hands and mixed it with the water so that the water washed the clay away. Some hillsides may have been ‘surfaced’. That is, all the gold bearing gravel and dirt lifted and carried away to be puddled for its gold content. 2.3usually as noun puddlinghistorical Stir (molten iron) with iron oxide in a furnace, to produce wrought iron by oxidizing carbon. 〈主史〉搅炼（熔化的铁水） Example sentencesExamples In the 1780s, Henry Cort developed the puddling furnace, which allowed pig iron to be refined in turn with coke. In the late 18th cent. the Cranage brothers, Peter Onions, and Henry Cort applied coke to the puddling process in producing bar iron. Origin Middle English: diminutive of Old English pudd ‘ditch, furrow’; compare with German dialect Pfudel ‘pool’.
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