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Word Meanings - PUNCHEON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. Oxf. Gloss. 3. A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. Bartlett. 4. Etym: (more info) punctio a pricking, fr. pungere to

Additional info about word: PUNCHEON

A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. Oxf. Gloss. 3. A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. Bartlett. 4. Etym: (more info) punctio a pricking, fr. pungere to prick. See Pungent, and cf. Punch 1. A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.

Related words: (words related to PUNCHEON)

  • SMOOTHEN
    To make smooth.
  • SPLIT INFINITIVE
    A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
  • FRAMABLE
    Capable of being framed.
  • SMOOTHNESS
    Quality or state of being smooth.
  • GLOSSA
    The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
  • GLOSSIST
    A writer of comments. Milton.
  • GLOSSOLOGY
    1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
  • GLOSSARIAL
    Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • GLOSSOLOGICAL
    Of or pertaining to glossology.
  • SPLITFEET
    The Fissipedia.
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.
  • GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to glossography.
  • PRICKING-UP
    The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.
  • PRICKPUNCH
    A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
  • GLOSSANTHRAX
    A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • BARTLETT
    A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
  • SMOOTH-CHINNED
    Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
  • SPLIT SWITCH
    = Point switch.
  • UNFRAME
    To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • GYMNOGLOSSA
    A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
  • DRIFTPIECE
    An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
  • CODPIECE
    A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
  • WOLFRAMATE
    A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.

 

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