puddled

The word puddled out of her lips and sounded both grown up and baby at the same time.

North of Center 2010

Ursula has splashed in the pool and run around on the motel's wooden deck, puddled from the day's rain.

Excerpt: Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill 2004

In making steel in the old way the cast iron was melted and the carbon and other impurities burned out of it, the melted iron being stirred or "puddled," meanwhile.

The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916

It is prepared by melting pig-iron in furnaces having such a shape that the molten metal can be stirred or "puddled" in contact with the air.

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

The roots of the plants were 'puddled' when planted out; that was all.

The Cauliflower 1877

More than this, a sieve filled with the stiffest clay, if not "puddled," (1) will drain completely, and so will heavy clay soils on porous and well drained subsoils.

Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health 1865

Page 82 on land before often ploughed wet, and always shallow, has well known draining effect, because the "puddled" and impervious pan is broken up, and the rain-water then permitted to sink through the natural fissures of the lower earth.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

It makes for thin if not poor soil; the chalk is covered by a clayey compost from eight to eighteen inches in depth, with intermingled fragments of flint, and this pulverizes into abundant whitish dust in dry weather, and in wet weather, since the water does not permeate the underlying chalk, it forms, when "puddled" by the feet of marching men, a most appalling quagmire – a mud through which one sinks it may be up to the knees, until brought to by the terra firma of the underlying chalk.

War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

The light silk fluttered to the ground and puddled around her ankles, leaving Lena wearing nothing but her shoes.

I.O.U. Elle 2011

The statue is sheathed in pure copper, hung on a framework of steel (which was originally puddled iron) with the exception of the flame of the torch, which is coated in gold leaf (originally made of copper and later altered to hold glass panes).

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