puddle ball

English

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Noun

puddle ball (plural puddle balls)

1. (metalworking) A vaguely spherical lump of gloopy wrought iron taken from the puddling furnace, which gets hammered or rolled into shapes, such as a puddle bar.

References

• “puddle-ball”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.