puddle

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Doubtless, he thought, the reflection in the puddle was the reflection of a star.

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  1. noun A small pool of water, especially rainwater.
  2. noun A small pool of a liquid.
  3. noun A tempered paste of wet clay and sand that serves as waterproofing when dry.

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  1. Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd, ditch.

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  1. Early modern English also puddel; from Middle English podel, a pool; origin obscure. Cf. Anglo-Saxon pudd (rare), a ditch or furrow (glossed by L. sulcus); English dial. pudge, a ditch. The W. pwdel, a puddle, is prob. from English
  2. Early modern English also poodle; apparently from the noun, but prob. in part a variant of paddle and pudder in similar senses. In the technical sense, def. 3, the verb has been adopted into other tongues (French puddler, etc.).
  3. Cf. Low German *puddel, purrel, something short and thick (puddel-rund, purrel-rund, short, thick, and round), puddig, thick, puddeln, pudeln, waddle, pudel, a thick-haired dog (see poodle).
 

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