Bible Dictionaries
Paunch

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To stuff with food.

(2):

(v. t.) To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

(3):

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

(4):

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

(5):

(n.) A paunch mat; - called also panch.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Paunch'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/paunch.html. 1828.