PUDDLER • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Puddler

... the various "mechanical puddlers" which have been put to work, nor the attempts that have been made by the use of some of them to make wrought iron direct from the ore; but neither the "mechanical puddler" nor the "direct process" has yet come into general use; and I desire to be taken as speaking of that which is the ordinary process pursued at the present in puddled iron manufactures. In 1831, a few hundredweights was the limit of ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 • Various