“William had progressed at work and had been promoted to the position of a puddler and was getting fairly good wages.”
“Sykes, a father-of-four, had been laid off from his job as a puddler at a Rotherham iron works in 1865, forcing him to turn to poaching to stave off destitution.”
“The decarburized iron, having a higher melting point than cast iron, was raked into globs by the puddler.”