puddlers

• “Paul and Josh were "puddlers" -- when they worked ... in the open furnaces that were in use in those days ... when you saw huge, magnificent men, naked to the belt, whose muscles rippled in coils as they toiled away in the midst of the living red of flowing metal.”

  Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative

• “Of this same number only 4 per cent were employed at what might be called semi-skilled or skilled work such as puddlers, mold-setters, painters, and carpenters.”

  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921

• “The lighter colored flesh tops mallards and the other puddlers.”

  Best Tasting Ducks

• “Just wondering if anyone knows if there are still birds around out there and if so puddlers or divers?”

  I am going out duck hunting in the morning in Western MN.

• “Not exactly a bird paradise but it had a good population of resident Canadas and a few puddlers, but almost no migratory birds.”

  Long-Range Shotgunning

• “The puddlers and finishers had to maintain their footing while handling balky equipment on forty-five-degree slopes slick with wet concrete and flowing water.”

  Simon & Schuster: Colossus

• “The finishers and puddlers—the latter assigned to trample imperfections and air pockets out of the wet concrete in heavy boots, like rustic winemakers crushing grapes—worked stripped to the waist, stopping periodically to unlace their boots, pour out streams of sweat, and wring out their socks.”

  Simon & Schuster: Colossus

• “At the Boulder Canyon dam site he would become a familiar and beloved figure, indistinguishable in appearance from the hundreds of muckers and puddlers on the job, holding court seated on an upturned bucket, the only Six Companies board member with an empathetic understanding of the backbreaking rigors of the job.”

  Simon & Schuster: Colossus

• “On the night of January 3, 1935, the puddlers on Form B-1, at the upstream edge of the dam adjacent to the Arizona cliffside, heard this sinister alarum a split second before a full bucket came careening over the edge of the form.”

  Simon & Schuster: Colossus

• ““Descendant of a family who could trace its adventures from the fifteenth century,” Rosalia is amused that the “sons of meat packers, wheat farmers and steel puddlers had become the nobility of the Western world.””

  Thicker than Water

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