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 Harry Kemp 1921

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 Various

The lighter colored flesh tops mallards and the other puddlers.

Best Tasting Ducks 2009

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. 2009

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 2009

The lighter colored flesh tops mallards and the other puddlers.

Best Tasting Ducks 2009

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 2009

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.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

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.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

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.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010