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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



... Tiralla finished them all. "I've not tasted anything I liked do well for a long time," he said with a fat smile as he stroked his paunch. "That's because my little daughter has gathered them for me and my [Pg 149] dear wife has cooked them. Thanks, both of you." He nodded to his daughter and took hold of his wife's hand ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
... from his chain. Their interviews were not as frequent as either dog or boy would have desired, but then they were very pleasant, for they brought the former a short spell of liberty, a meal of biscuit or paunch, and sometimes—oh, ecstasy!—the worrying of a rat, while Stubbs enjoyed the sense of proprietorship, and the knowledge that he was doing what was forbidden. He had dreams of leaving school and taking Topper home with him, and owning him as his friend before all the world, ...
— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough
... quiet the giant visitor fell to pasturing among the crisp and tender water-weeds. It took a long time to fill his cavernous paunch by way of that slender neck of his, and when he was satisfied he went composedly to sleep, his body perfectly concealed under the water, his head resting on a little islet of matted reeds in a thicket of "mares' tails." When he woke up again the ...
— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts
... looked to see you there, the stout and staunch, "Red flag" in one hand and "ten swords" in t'other; Saw the strong sword-belt bursting from your paunch; Pitied the foes you'd fall upon and smother; Heard you make droves of pale policemen bleat, Running amok to "slay ...
— Punch, 1917.07.04, Vol. 153, Issue No. 1 • Various
... for very want of words; just gaped and gasped, and then, with hands folded upon his paunch, he set himself to ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini


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