| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pun·cheon |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p n ch n |
| NOUN: | 1. A short wooden upright used in structural framing. 2. A piece of broad, heavy, roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat. 3. A punching, perforating, or stamping tool, especially one used by a goldsmith. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English punchon, from Old French ponçon, ponchon, from Vulgar Latin *p ncti , pnctin-, punch, from *pncti re, to pierce, from Latin pnctus, past participle of pungere, to prick. See peuk- in Appendix I.
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