Ruddle vs Puddle - What's the difference?
ruddle | puddle |
A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep
To mark something with red ochre.
To raddle or twist.
A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:
A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
To form a puddle.
To play or splash in a puddle.
To process iron by means of puddling.
To line a canal with puddle (clay).
To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between ruddle and puddle
is that ruddle is a form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep or ruddle can be a riddle or sieve while puddle is a small pool of water, usually on a path or road.As verbs the difference between ruddle and puddle
is that ruddle is to mark something with red ochre while puddle is to form a puddle.ruddle
English
Etymology 1
(en)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* raddle * reddleDerived terms
* ruddlemanVerb
(ruddl)Synonyms
* raddle * reddleReferences
*OED 2nd edition 1989Etymology 2
puddle
English
Noun
(en noun)- And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
- 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.
Verb
(puddl)- Some unhatched practice / Hath puddled his clear spirit.
