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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.

3. 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Peoples" Country'', Nebraska 2005, p. 7:

he chose to regard his father with a lowering and suspicious mien, unless it were in the dead hours of the night, when he developed a morbid craving to be trotted back and forth and up and down the puncheon floor ....

4. A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat.

5. A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.

6. A walkway over wet ground constructed by laying planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground.

7. A short low bridge of similar construction. Also called puncheon bridge.

8. A cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.

9. 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers|James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205:

Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

10. 1913, w:D. H. Lawrence|D.H. Lawrence, s:Sons_and_Lovers Sons and Lovers, s:Sons and Lovers/Chapter VIII|chapter 8

Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion, and dropped it in a baking-tin.

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