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pung
[ puhng ]
noun
, Chiefly Eastern Canada and New England.
- a sleigh with a boxlike body.
pung
/ pʌŋ /
noun
- a horse-drawn sleigh with a boxlike body on runners
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pung1
C19: shortened from Algonquian tom-pung; compare toboggan
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Example Sentences
The motors had disappeared from our roads, and we went to the village in a pung, meeting other pungs on the way.
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Quickly and as carefully as possible they lifted him into the pung, covered him with a warm robe, and then sped back to the cabin.
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An hour later an old, lean horse fastened to a homemade pung was wending its way slowly along the road leading to the river.
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She and Sammy, the home-made pung and the old lean mare plodding onward, were inseparably connected with the parish of Glendow.
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A big sleigh—we call it a "pung" up there—was being driven through the streets by an old man who looked like Santa Claus.
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