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What is a puncheon?

What is a puncheon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
  2. A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
    1. A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat.
    2. A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.
  3. A walkway over wet ground constructed by laying planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground.
  4. A short low bridge of similar construction. Also called puncheon bridge.
  5. A cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.
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If I've seen him eat a quart of it, I've seen him eat a puncheon full of it, in my time.
Fig. 277 shows a fireplace with a puncheon support for a plank mantel.
C is the puncheon supporting the mantel and D is the mantel.
Night after night they played their fiddles and danced till dawn on their footworn puncheon floors.
A puncheon, such as is used in89 dairies, is very convenient.
Grimes, after drinking his fill, had overturned the unheaded puncheon, and the greedy sand had absorbed every drop of liquor.

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