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/pˈəŋktʃər/ /pˈəŋkʃər/ Listen

noun

Puncture n.

The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.

A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. "A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp."

verb

Puncture v. t. (past & past part. punctured; pres. part. puncturing) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.

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Etymology of 'Puncture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Puncture" Quotes from Famous Books

... likely to be done to his friend by this flattering incident, sought to puncture Honnell's unhealthy pride by saying, "Plaho?" (or "bad") as a suggestion to the critics; but this only caused them to say repeatedly and with emphasis, "Dobra!"—which was one of Honnell's ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919 • Various

... his property, and in so doing broke an arm of one of the deputy's men. He then fled to the mountains; but he could not hide himself from the vengeance of Landenberg. The peasant's aged father was arrested by order of the bailiff, and his eyes put out in punishment for his son's offense. "That puncture," says an old chronicler, "went so deep into many a heart that numbers resolved to die rather than leave ...

— Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life • Orison Swett Marden

... use of the microscopic mandibles. Those two delicate spikes are incapable of chewing anything, but they may very well serve to pierce the epidermis with an aperture smaller than that made by the finest needle; and it is through this puncture that the Leucopsis sucks the juices of his prey. They are instruments made to perforate the bag of fat which slowly, without suffering any internal injury, is emptied through an opening repeated here and there. The Anthrax' cupping-glass is here ...

— The Mason-bees • J. Henri Fabre

... and skipped and jumped down slopes, negotiated curves on two wheels and brought them triumphantly through White Cliff Canyon, over the malpais belt, up and across a mesa and so to the far brink of it an hour before dawn without puncture, without a broken leaf in the springs, with shock absorbers still on duty and ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... steam which is driving a 10,000 horse-power engine. A thin layer of dirt beneath the wheels of an electric car can prevent the current which propels the car from passing to the rail, and then back to the power-house." There would, indeed, be a puncture of the paper if the current had a sufficient voltage, or pressure; yet the fact remains that current electricity can be very easily confined to its conductor by means of ...

— How it Works • Archibald Williams

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