puddled bar

puddled bar (countable and uncountable, plural puddled bars)

1. An incompletely refined iron produced by the puddling of pig iron and then formation into a bar, which can then subsequently be further refined into iron bars.
   • 1889, John Millar McEvoy, The Ontario Township, page 41:

     In the manufacture of bar iron, either puddled bar or scrap iron may be used. The puddled bar is the product of pig iron.

   • 1894, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons - Volume 38, page 6477:

     Puddled bar is the raw material of the man who makes bar iron.

   • 1915, William John Alexander Donald, The Canadian Iron and Steel Industry, page 101:

     The same rolls could be used whether bar iron, scrap iron, or puddled bars were used, and even if the duty on scrap were raised to a prohibitory point , the domestic producers of pig iron could not have profited greatly, since much of the scrap iron was purchased in the country, and since the producers of puddled bars had not the facilities to produce a large enough output at the price at which bars could then be imported.