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Welter vs Puddle - What's the difference?

welter | puddle |

As nouns the difference between welter and puddle

is that welter is welter (boxing class) while puddle is a small pool of water, usually on a path or road.

As a verb puddle is

to form a puddle.

welter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl). Cognates include (etyl) (m) ((etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to roll; to wallow
  • (intransitive, sometimes, figurative) to be soaked or steeped in.
  • * Latimer
    • When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.
  • * Spenser
    • These wizards welter in wealth's waves.
  • * Landor
    • the priests at the altar weltering in their blood
  • To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
  • * Milton
    • the weltering waves
  • * Wordsworth
    • waves that, hardly weltering , die away
  • * Trench
    • through this blindly weltering sea
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

  • Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.
    • Derived terms
    * welter-weight

    Etymology 3

    Compare wilt (intransitive verb).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wither; to wilt.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Weltered hearts and blighted memories.
    English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    puddle

    English

    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.

    • Verb

    (puddl)
  • 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
    • Some unhatched practice / Hath puddled his clear spirit.