Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that puddles iron or clay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device or machine for stirring the fused metal in a puddling-furnace.
- noun One who or that which puddles; specifically, one who is employed in the process of converting cast-iron into wrought-iron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who converts
cast iron intowrought iron by the process ofpuddling .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling
Etymologies
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Examples
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"puddler," the untrained, undeveloped "tiger-man," heated by a quart or two above his usual measure, comes home and kicks his irritating and injudicious wife to death.
The House of Souls Arthur Machen 1905
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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He had sold ladies 'underwear, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias door to door; he had been a short order cook, elevator operator, puddler in a steel mill, seaman, carnival shill, bulldozer operator, printer's devil and legman for a radio station.
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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"Life in the Iron Mills" told the story of two Welsh immigrants, Hugh, an iron puddler and sculptor, and his cousin Deborah, a cotton mill worker, who inhabit a western Virginia river town.
Appalachian Hardship 2006
mollusque commented on the word puddler
He has as much charm as a steel puddler's underpants.
Raymond Chandler, 1953, The Long Goodbye, chapter 15
September 5, 2009