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• So that I much question, whether there was a man in all our camp, whose good luck would have given more general satisfaction than his On opening Billy's hogshead, which indeed was no hogshead, but rather a puncheon, as big as two hogsheads, there was a prodigious stare among our men at the sight of so much wealth 100 strong white shirts for soldiers 50 fine do. —  The Life of General Francis Marion
• 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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