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noun

Paunch n.

(Anat.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.

(Naut.) A paunch mat; called also panch.

The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.

A noticeably protruding belly; a potbelly.

Paunch mat (Naut.), a thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.

verb

Paunch v. t. (past & past part. paunched; pres. part. paunching)

To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

To stuff with food. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Paunch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Paunch" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Lord knows where! At noon we came across him Asleep beside a hunk of bear— His paunch was bulged with 'possum. ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... to whom he spoke sat opposite him in the lounging room of Scanlon's Gymnasium; a pair of puffy white hands were folded over a bloated paunch; he had a sodden air of over-feeding ...

— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre

... Halifax met Goering, attired for the occasion in a new and bewilderingly gaudy uniform. In the course of their conversation Goering, resting his hands on his enormous paunch, said: ...

— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak

... half sceptic, half afraid of wrong, Shall walk our streets, and mark the passing throng; The brawny oaf in mould herculean cast, The pigmy statesman trembling in his blast, The cumb'rous citizen of portly paunch, Unwont to soar beyond the smoaking haunch; The meagre bard behind the moving tun, His shadow seeming lengthen'd by the sun; Who forms scarce visible shall thus descry, Like flitting clouds athwart the mental sky; ...

— The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems • Washington Allston

... moving steadily southward-getting further and further down under the projecting paunch of the globe. Yesterday evening we saw the Big Dipper and the north star sink below the horizon and disappear from our world. No, not "we," but they. They saw it—somebody saw it—and told me about it. But it is no matter, I was not caring for those things, I am ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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