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pung

  [puhng]
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–noun Chiefly Eastern Canada and New England.
a sleigh with a boxlike body.
Origin:
1815–25, Americanism; short for tom-pung, ult. < the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan
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pung   (pŭng)   
n.   New England
A low, one-horse box sleigh.

[Short for dialectal tom-pung, from an Algonquian language of southern New England.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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