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English Dictionary: Puddling by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Puddle \Pud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Puddled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Puddling}.]
      1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt
            with (water).
  
                     Some unhatched practice . . . Hath puddled his clear
                     spirit.                                             --Shak.
  
      2.
            (a) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working
                  when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
            (b) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to
                  apply puddle to.
  
      3. To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to
            convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of
            wrought iron. --Ure.
  
      {Puddled steel}, steel made directly from cast iron by a
            modification of the puddling process.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Puddling \Pud"dling\, n.
      1. (Hydraul. Engin.)
            (a) 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.
            (b) Puddle. See {Puddle}, n., 2.
  
      2. (Metal.) 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.
  
      {Puddling furnace}, a reverberatory furnace in which cast
            iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by
            puddling.
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