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.