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What is the noun for puddling?

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puddling
  1. The action of making a puddle.
  2. The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids.
  3. (canal engineering) The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight.
  4. (metallurgy, historical) The first true industrial process to produce steel from pig iron.
  5. A group of mallards (ducks).
  6. A behaviour in which animals like butterflies seek out moist substances to obtain nutrients.
puddle
  1. A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. [from 14th c.]
  2. (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water. [from 16th c.]
  3. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight. [from 18th c.]
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “She then proceeded to pluck Lucky from the puddle of mud and carry her into the barn.”
puddler
  1. One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.
  2. Examples:
    1. “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.”
puddlings
  1. plural of puddling
puddlers
  1. plural of puddler
puddles
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