luncheon

Example Sentences

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It’s one thing to enjoy a bottle of wine, but repeated encounters with stainless steel fermentation tanks and French oak puncheons can be soul-sapping.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2015

He lopped the branches, split the trunks, and trimmed his puncheons true.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

A deputation was sent to meet the duke and duchess and to offer them and the Governor of Bresse four dozen Clon cheeses, four puncheons of foreign wine, and twelve pots of preserves.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.

We give one example, and it is from Derbyshire:— “Crich two roller-boulders, Winfield ting-tangs, Alfreton kettles, And Pentrich pans, Kirk-Hallam candlesticks, Cossall cow-bells, Denby cracked puncheons, And Horsley merry bells.”

From Literary Byways by Andrews, William

The door, of split logs, like puncheons, swung by leather hinges and fastened with a wooden pin and latch-string.

From The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)