buddle
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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Origin of buddle
First recorded in 1525–35; of uncertain origin
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Buddle, bud′l, v.t. to wash ore with a buddle or inclined hutch over which water flows.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Further inland is Budleigh Salterton, so named after its buddle, or stream, which running through the village makes its way slowly down to the sea.
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by William Henry Giles Kingston
It was treated by grinding in mills and concentrating upon a sort of buddle.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
In other respects the head resembles the head of the simple buddle, except that it is not depressed in the middle.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
In this buddle is generally washed that metalliferous material which has been sifted through the large sieve into the tub containing water.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
There's another in tha ditch! a'll be a buddled!
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
You'll be but a buddled oaf an you go this gait.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
The immortal Bowdler is usually said to take his name from the art of puddling, or buddling, iron ore.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
By this term the author includes all the operations of sluicing, buddling, and wet concentration generally.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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