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puddling-machine

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See puddling, 2 .

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Examples

  • Here the dirt raised from the mine is put into the iron puddling-machine, and worked round and round with water.

    A Boy's Voyage Round the World Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Pactolus, every hillock a gold-field — does not contain a cradle, a puddling-machine, a quartz crusher, a pound of mercury.”

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • This Ophir, this California, where every river is a Tmolus and a Pactolus, every hillock a gold-field ” does not contain a cradle, a puddling-machine, a quartz crusher, a pound of mercury. "

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • This Ophir, this California, where every river is a Tmolus and a Pactolus, every hillock a gold-field -- does not contain a cradle, a puddling-machine, a quartz crusher, a pound of mercury. "

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

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  • What?! This isn't a toilet?

    July 23, 2010

  • Perhaps for frogs it is :-/

    July 23, 2010