puncheon

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englanti 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.
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Peoples" 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 piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat.
A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.
A walkway over wet ground constructed by laying planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground.
A short low bridge of similar construction. Also called puncheon bridge.
A cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.
1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers|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, w:D. H. Lawrence|D.H. Lawrence, s:Sons_and_Lovers Sons and Lovers, s:Sons and Lovers/Chapter VIII|chapter 8
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.

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