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Puncheon
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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noun
1.
a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
2.
a short, upright framing timber.
3.
(in goldsmith work)
a.
any of various pointed instruments; a punch.
b.
a stamping tool.
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| puncheon2 (ˈpʌntʃən) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a short wooden post that is used as a vertical strut |
| 2. | a less common name for punch |
| [C14 ponson, from Old French ponçon, from Latin punctiō a puncture, from pungere to prick] | |
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Word Origin & History
puncheon
"cask for liquor," 1479, from M.Fr. poinchon (13c.), of unknown origin. Uncertain connection with puncheon "slab of timber" (1466), also "pointed tool for punching" (see punch (n.1)).
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