puddling 
puddling
Definition
pud·dling (pud′liŋ, pud′'l iŋ)
noun
- the process of working clay, etc. into a puddle
- the process of making wrought iron from pig iron by heating and stirring it in the presence of oxidizing agents
Etymology: < puddle
puddling
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- furnace: The photograph clearly shows the four blast furnaces and to their right the building which housed the puddling furnaces and rolling mills.
- process: An improvement to Cort's puddling process came from Joseph Hall in 1816.
- clay: This leak was stopped by the application of some puddling clay.
Noun used with modifier
- clay: The 20ft high embankment was breached during the 1968 floods and a good deal of the clay puddling was scoured out.
puddling Quotes
I have been here a fortnight and I think I shall be here fifteen or twenty days longer, although I do not very much like the place, for this puddling in a tub continually is no charm to me.
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