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puncho, ~ona [ME punchoun, AN ponchon, OF ponçon < CL punctio] 1 vertical wooden beam, strut, puncheon. 1236 mandatum est custodi foreste de Windles’ quod ‥ faciat habere Symoni, carpentario regis ‥ vj punzunos et vj clavuns ad recaciandum warderobam regis ibidem que inclinata est in unam partem Cl 394; 1275 Johanni Mer[i]mer pro iij puncon’, ix d. KR Ac 467/6/2 m.5; Johanni le Merimer ‥ pro xvj punchon’ quercus, ij s. ix d. Ib. m. 8; pro vj post’ ‥ et ij puncon’ Ib. m. 9; 1291 pro septem ponsonibus de quercu emptis Ib. 468/2 r. 9; 1313 carpentario ‥ pro quibusdam brachiis laceis postis punsonis gutteriis confractis in eadem [turri] reparandis Ib. 469/16 f. 3d.; 1400 item solutis ad Johannem Masun pro cordulis et pungnibus, iiij d. Ac. Churchw. Bath 17. 2 pointed tool, punch, puncheon (dist. acc. use). 1275 vicecomites perexorunt per totam civitatem cum ‥ martellis ponconiis et hujus[modi] ad frangendas cistas Hund. I 405a; 1287 thesaurarius ‥ injunxit Rogero ‥ quod statim liberet ‥ attornatis ‥ abbatis unum cuneum viz. unum stapellum et duos pinzsones pro moneta fabricanda Reg. Pinchbeck II 5; habere debet unum cuneum viz. unum stapellum et duos pinczones pro moneta ‥ fabricanda Ib.; 1291 in pikos’, securibus, chysell’, et ponsoribus [et] aliis utensilibus cementar’ acuendis et acerandis KR Ac 479/15 m. 3; 1301 in ‥ uno punzono empto ad falsos denarios perforandos, ix. d. (Ac Ireland) KR Ac 233/17 m. 3; 1320 in reparacione martellorum, hachiarum, punsonum, et chisellorum cementariorum Ib. 469/1; 1350 pro j poncona ferri vocata drivel (v. educere 3c); 1358 aurifabri habeant unam certam ~onam cum capite leopardi ‥ liberandum ad operaciones suas inde consignandas (Ch.) Arch. Gironde XVI 138; 1398 liberavit ‥ unum punson’ (v. celtis).

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