Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A low, one-horse box sleigh.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rude form of sleigh consisting of a box-like body placed on runners; any low box-sleigh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US, Canada A low box-like sleigh designed to be pulled by one horse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries.
Half a Dozen Girls Anna Chapin Ray 1905
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I am honored to be the sole chosen 373rd-generation lineage holder of Peng Zu pronounced pung zoo, the teacher of Lao Zi.
Tao I Dr. 2010
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I am honored to be the sole chosen 373rd-generation lineage holder of Peng Zu pronounced pung zoo, the teacher of Lao Zi.
Tao I Dr. 2010
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Note 61: CS 1601; Proto-Mashariki * - pung - "to winnow, to fan"; PNECB * - pung "to winnow, to fan, to exorcise"; e.g.,
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Yatima a piercing whistle of pure joie de vivre pung, kong, chow
pung, kong, chow 2009
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pung, kong, chow 2009
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She put a finger to a line and said in a voice that picked up speed without taking breath, Ong aung mung ring pang pung mang ang hauh!
The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008
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She put a finger to a line and said in a voice that picked up speed without taking breath, Ong aung mung ring pang pung mang ang hauh!
The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008
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She put a finger to a line and said in a voice that picked up speed without taking breath, Ong aung mung ring pang pung mang ang hauh!
The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008
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Mr. SCOFIELD: You know, as reverse to pung-pung-kark (ph), pung-pung-pung-pung-kark (ph) which is the music of our time.
yarb commented on the word pung
This is why I adore Melville:
'The far summit fairly smoked with frost; white vapors curled up from its wooded top, as from a chimney. The intense congelation made the whole country look like one petrifaction. The steel shoes of my pung craunched and gritted over the vitreous, chippy snow, as if it had been broken glass.'
- Melville, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
April 3, 2010