Noun

The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.

(metaphorical ) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists.

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Noun

(en noun)

A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:

And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].

* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:

searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle , that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.

A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.