Noun

(puncheons)

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:

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 [...].

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:

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.

* 1913 ,

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.

Noun

(en noun)

An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52 1/2 imperial gallons; a half pipe.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p.205

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.

A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
  Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}