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Pung  n.  A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners. (U.S.) "Sledges or pungs, coarsely framed of split saplings, and surmounted with a large crockery crate." "They did not take out the pungs to-day."






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"Pung" Quotes from Famous Books



... delight at the proposition. Esther's cabin stood some little distance off from the main road, towards which a long and narrow winding track led, seldom travelled by any other vehicles than ox carts and sleds. Over the yet unbroken snow, Pownal directed the horse, the light pung plunging with every motion of the animal, and threatening to upset, causing merriment, however, rather than alarm to the occupants of the conveyance. In this manner, straining through the snow-drifts, they finally reached the dwelling of Esther. ...
— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams

... often have so much wind as this, but the snow is nothing out of the way. Why, on Palm Sunday last year our milkman dug through a drift twenty feet deep to get at his cows. He was the only milkman who ventured out, and he took me and the minister's wife to church in his little red pung. ...
— The Green Satin Gown • Laura E. Richards



Words linked to "Pung" :   sleigh



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