puncheons

Fermented in puncheons rather than stainless steel, the nose is almost chardonnay-like in its tropical fruit and banana fruit aromas with oak-born spice and light floral qualities.

LENNDEVOURS: 2009

Fermented in puncheons rather than stainless steel, the nose is almost chardonnay-like in its tropical fruit and banana fruit aromas with oak-born spice and light floral qualities.

Jamesport Vineyards 2007 Sauvignon Blanc Reserve 2009

On either side of these main puncheons were two shorter ones, laid to cover the small area of the pit's mouth not covered by the main puncheons.

Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden 1917

The floor was composed of what by the settlers were termed puncheons; which were made by splitting in half trees of some eighteen inches in diameter, and hewing the faces of them as regular as possible with the broad-axe.

Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Emerson Bennett

The door was split out of logs called puncheons and was fastened together with wooden pins, driven into holes, bored with an auger.

Chief of Scouts Drannan, William F 1910

These were called puncheons, and were fitted in for the floor, making it as tight as possible.

Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years). John Coram 1902

Under the window was a wide bench made of a half log, commonly called a puncheon bench, and the flooring was likewise of puncheons, that is, split logs with the flat side smoothed down.

On the Trail of Pontiac Edward Stratemeyer 1896

The tables, chairs, stools, and bedsteads were of the plainest sort, and were often made of puncheons, that is, of small tree trunks split in half.

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

Then it was that roughly hewn planks, or logs split into three or four strips, called puncheons, were pegged with wooden nails on the sides, or ends, where doors or windows were to be made.

Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony James Otis 1880

They were framed of the round logs, untouched by the ax except for the notches at the ends where 5 they were fitted into one another; the chimney was of small sticks stuck together with mud, and was as frail as a barn-swallow's nest; the walls were stuffed with moss, plastered with clay; the floor was of rough boards called puncheons, riven from the block with a heavy knife; the 10 roof was of clapboards, split from logs and laid loosely on the rafters and held in place with logs fastened athwart them.

Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year 1923