DCHP-3

punt

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

See 1906 quote.

Quotations

1792
Punt. A small boat.
1861
The punt loaded with our game, homeward we hie for breakfast; and a jolly meal it is, the allowance being a duck a man.
1906
If confined to the Arm and when the day was fine, a punt (in Newfound-land a keeled rowboat of peculiar native construction) and one man sufficed; if out in the bay to Deer Harbor, a "cod-seine skiff" and half a dozen men might be needed.
1954
I got out in the punt and pushed off for a picture of the boat.