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. |