Word Meanings - PLASHET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small pond or pool; a puddle.

Related words: (words related to PLASHET)

• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• PUDDLER
  One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• PUDDLE-BAR
  An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• PUDDLE
  1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser. 2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. Fuller.
• PUDDLE-BALL
  The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• BAPTISMALLY
  In a baptismal manner.