Puncheon - What does it mean?
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has no English definition.
A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 7:
A cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p. 205:
* 1913 ,
is likely misspelled.
has no English definition.
As a noun puncheon
is a figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.puncheon
English
Alternative forms
* punchionNoun
(puncheons)- he chose to regard [his father] with a lowering and suspicious mien, unless it were in the dead hours of the night, when he developed a morbid craving to be trotted back and forth and up and down the puncheon floor [...].
- Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
- Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion , and dropped it in a baking-tin.