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Punch
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
(2):
(n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.
(3):
(n.) To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.
(4):
(v. t.) To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.
(5):
(n.) One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.
(6):
(n.) A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
(7):
(n.) The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
(8):
(n.) A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; - specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.
(9):
(n.) A thrust or blow.
(10):
(n.) A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Punch'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/punch.html. 1828.
