puddling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The processing of pig iron (with high carbon content) by placing it into a reverberatory furnace, stirring to expose it to oxygen and create puddled iron and then (with further stirring to fully decarbonize it) wrought iron.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A behaviour in which animals like butterflies seek out moist substances to obtain nutrients.
Countable; Uncountable