Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of puncheon.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Sons and Lovers 1907

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