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And just as a bulky sugar puncheon, All ready staved, like a great sun shone Glorious scarce an inch before me, Just as methought it said, Come, bore me I found the Weser rolling o'er me You should have heard the Hamelin people Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple.— The Book of Humorous Verse
The table and chairs were made of "puncheon," or slabs of wood, with holes bored under each corner to stick the legs in.— The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
This was called rolling-up a house, and the house was called a puncheon and bark house.— Home Life in Colonial Days
I met an old friend who was on board of her, for he took his passage in her from London Why,' says he to me, `Bramble, I thought we never should have got away from the river, for the old captain, who was as big round as a puncheon, and not unlike one, declared that he would not sail until the powder came up from Woolwich; for the Queen Charlotte (that was the name of the smack) carried six eighteen-pound carronades.— Poor Jack

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