PUNCHEON

Traducere în limba română

puncheon¹substantiv

(înv.) butoi (de 72-100 galoane).

puncheon² substantiv

1. proptea / suport de lemn.

2. (rar) poanson, perforator.

3. (amer.) ţandără; despicătură.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I've seen his top-sails with these eyes, off Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a rum-puncheon that I sailed with put back—put back, sir, into Port of Spain.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse at the latter end of it?

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Well, while things stood thus, suddenly the HISPANIOLA struck, staggered, ground for an instant in the sand, and then, swift as a blow, canted over to the port side till the deck stood at an angle of forty-five degrees and about a puncheon of water splashed into the scupper holes and lay, in a pool, between the deck and bulwark.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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