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.