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noun
Paunch  n.  
1.
(Anat.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
2.
(Naut.) A paunch mat; called also panch.
3.
The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
4.
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)  
1.
To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
2.
To stuff with food. (Obs.)





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"Paunch" Quotes from Famous Books



... I can eat, Yet neither paunch nor mouth have I, I storm whene'er you give me meat, Whene'er you give ...
— Oriental Literature - The Literature of Arabia • Anonymous
... had served long enough I might have become a captain. In time, if I lived, I should naturally have become the senior captain of the Army; and then if there were another war and any of the field officers did me the favor to paunch a bullet I should become the junior major, certain of another step upward as soon as a number of my superiors equal to the whole number of majors should be killed, resign or die of old age—enchanting prospect! But I am getting a long way off ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce
... crawl in after him; and shot him five times more, three in the head, before he gave up not six feet from us; and shouted gloriously and skinned that bear. But the meat was badly bloodshot, for there were three bullets in the head, two in the chest and shoulders, one through the paunch, and one ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White
... the tiger and eat the rest of him. So the two brothers searched for him everywhere and when they found him they chased him until they ran him down and killed him; then they lit a fire and singed the hair off and roasted the flesh and made a grand meal: but they did not eat the paunch. Kara wanted to eat it but Guja would not let him, so Kara carried it ...
— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas
... to open to women a new "avenue of opportunities" the first to enter and walk therein, like God in the Garden of Eden, is the good Mr. Munniglut, contentedly smoothing the folds out of the superior slope of his paunch, exuding the peculiar aroma of his oleagmous personality, and larding the new roadway with the overflow of a righteousness secreted by some spiritual gland stimulated to action by relish of his own identity. And ever ...
— The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce


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