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puddle is a small accumulation of liquid on a surface.
Puddle or Puddles may also refer to:
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Puddle, Cornwall
Puddle is a hamlet near Lanlivery in mid Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornw ...
, hamlet in England
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''Puddle'' (video game)
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Puddle (M. C. Escher)
''Puddle'' is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in February 1952.
Since 1936, Escher's work had become primarily focused on paradoxes, tessellation
A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often ...
, a woodcut by M. C. Escher
* Weld puddle, a crucial part of the
welding
Welding is a fabrication (metal), fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing Fusion welding, fusion. Welding is distinct from lower ...
process
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rowing, an oval patch of disturbed water indicative of rowing skill
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Puddle clay
Puddling is both the material and the process of lining a water body such as a channel or pond with puddle clay (puddle, puddling) – a watertight (low hydraulic conductivity) material based on clay and water mixed to be workable.
Puddle clay as ...
, a type of waterproof cement
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Puddle of Mudd, an American post-grunge band
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The Puddle, the New Zealand music group
* Puddles the Clown, the stage name of
Mike Geier
Michael Geier (born March 12, 1965), known as Big Mike Geier, is a singer, actor, and entertainer based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Geier has garnered international fame through his most critically acclaimed act: a Pagliacci-type clown alter ego n ...
, and the associated band Puddles Pity Party
Puddling may refer to:
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Puddling (agriculture)
Puddling is the tillage of rice paddies while flooded, an ancient practice that is used to prepare for rice cultivation. Historically, this has been accomplished by dragging a weighted harrow across a flooded paddy field behind a buffalo or o ...
, wet tillage of rice paddies to prepare them for rice planting
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Puddling (biology)
Mud-puddling, or simply puddling, is a behaviour most conspicuous in butterflies, but occurs in other animals as well, mainly insects; they seek out nutrients in certain moist substances such as rotting plant matter, mud and carrion and they suck ...
, the process by which butterflies extract nutrients from damp surfaces
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Puddling (civil engineering)
Puddling is both the material and the process of lining a water body such as a channel or pond with puddle clay (puddle, puddling) – a watertight (low hydraulic conductivity) material based on clay and water mixed to be workable.
Puddle clay as ...
, a method for producing waterproof puddle or lining an existing area with puddle clay
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Puddling (metallurgy), an obsolete method for purifying pig iron
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Puddling furnace, a metalmaking technology to create wrought iron from the pig iron produced in a blast furnace
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