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What (who) is puddle - definition
SMALL ACCUMULATION OF LIQUID, USUALLY WATER, ON A SURFACE
Puddles; Mud puddle
![Reflection]]s in a forest puddle](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Begliktash puddle Бегликташ локва — копия.jpg?width=200 "Reflection]]s in a forest puddle")
![Small puddles held together by [[surface tension]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Exploring new continents 1200728.JPG?width=200 "Small puddles held together by [[surface tension]]")
![Puddles formed from rainwater, filling [[pothole]]s on a road](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Moisture and puddles on muddy road.jpg?width=200 "Puddles formed from rainwater, filling [[pothole]]s on a road")
![A [[common shelduck]] drinking from a puddle](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tadorna tadorna (Tadorne de Belon) - 363.jpg?width=200 "A [[common shelduck]] drinking from a puddle")
Puddle
·vi To make a dirty stir.
II. Puddle ·noun A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
III. Puddle ·vt To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
IV. Puddle ·vt To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
V. Puddle ·noun Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.
VI. Puddle ·vt To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
VII. Puddle ·vt 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.
puddle
n.
Pool (of dirty water), muddy plash.
puddle
¦ noun
1. a small pool of liquid, especially of rainwater on the ground.
2. clay and sand mixed with water and used as a watertight covering for embankments.
3. Rowing a circular patch of disturbed water made by the blade of an oar at each stroke.
¦ verb
1. cover with or form puddles.
2. (puddle about/around) dabble or wallow in mud or shallow water.
informal occupy oneself in a disorganized or unproductive way.
3. line (a hole) with puddle.
knead (clay and sand) into puddle.
work (mixed water and clay) to separate gold or opal.
4. [usu. as noun puddling] chiefly historical stir (molten iron) with iron oxide in a furnace, to produce wrought iron by oxidizing carbon.
Derivatives
puddler noun
puddly adjective
Origin
ME: dimin. of OE pudd 'ditch, furrow'; cf. Ger. dialect Pfudel 'pool'.
Wikipedia
Puddle
A puddle is a small accumulation of liquid, usually water, on a surface. It can form either by pooling in a depression on the surface, or by surface tension upon a flat surface.
A puddle is generally shallow enough to walk through, and too small to traverse with a boat or raft. Small wildlife may be attracted to puddles.
Examples of use of puddle
1. The drainage grates are overmatched, and the puddle keeps growing.
2. In previous years Glastonbury rain was notorious for its staying power a puddle on Friday was pretty much a puddle for life.
3. Cameron is as shallow and wet as a little puddle.
4. It may even be the lowest salt puddle in the world.
5. Books that had been left on the floor sat soaking in a puddle.