puddled

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water). [1913 Webster]

Some unhatched practice . . . Hath puddled his clear spirit.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2. (a) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water. (b) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to. [1913 Webster]

3.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. --Ure. [1913 Webster]

Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process. [1913 Webster]