pung

[ puhng ]

noun

, Chiefly Eastern Canada and New England.

1. a sleigh with a boxlike body.

pung

/ pʌŋ /

noun

1. a horse-drawn sleigh with a boxlike body on runners

Word History and Origins

Origin of pung¹

1815–25, Americanism; short for tom-pung, ultimately < the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan

Word History and Origins

Origin of pung¹

C19: shortened from Algonquian tom-pung; compare toboggan

Example Sentences

The motors had disappeared from our roads, and we went to the village in a pung, meeting other pungs on the way.

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Quickly and as carefully as possible they lifted him into the pung, covered him with a warm robe, and then sped back to the cabin.

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An hour later an old, lean horse fastened to a homemade pung was wending its way slowly along the road leading to the river.

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She and Sammy, the home-made pung and the old lean mare plodding onward, were inseparably connected with the parish of Glendow.

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A big sleigh—we call it a "pung" up there—was being driven through the streets by an old man who looked like Santa Claus.

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