Definitions
A small pool of liquid collected on a surface.
Word origin
From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.
Used in a sentence
“Foꝛ with the only be theſe welles of lyfe, / Of frayle men ſpring but podels of myꝛe, / From whom ſourdeth errour ⁊ croked ſtrife[…]”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Shallow rain pool”6 letters
02“Small rain pool”6 letters
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