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pung

[ puhng ]

noun

, Chiefly Eastern Canada and New England.
  1. a sleigh with a boxlike body.


pung

/ pʌŋ /

noun

  1. a horse-drawn sleigh with a boxlike body on runners
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pung1

1815–25, Americanism; short for tom-pung, ultimately < the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan
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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.

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.

An hour later an old, lean horse fastened to a homemade pung was wending its way slowly along the road leading to the river.

She and Sammy, the home-made pung and the old lean mare plodding onward, were inseparably connected with the parish of Glendow.

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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