Definition of Paunch. Meaning of Paunch. Synonyms of Paunch

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Definition of Paunch

Paunch
Paunch Paunch, n. [OF. panch, pance, F. panse, L. pantex, panticis.] 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. Paunch mat (Naut.), a thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.
Paunch
Paunch Paunch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paunched; p. pr. & vb. n. Paunching.] 1. To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. --Shak. 2. To stuff with food. [Obs.] --Udall.

Meaning of Paunch from wikipedia

- Look up paunch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Paunch may refer to: The rumen, the larger part of the reticulorumen, the first chamber in the digestive...
- extreme bitterness of its leaves) or panza de burro ( Spanish : donkey's paunch ), is a flowering plant belonging to the subfamily Cestroideae of the nightshade...
- proverbs, and earthy wit. "Panza" in Spanish means "belly" (cf. English "paunch," Italian "pancia", several Italian dialects "panza", Portuguese and Galician...
- The rumen, also known as a paunch, is the largest stomach compartment in ruminants. The rumen and the reticulum make up the reticulorumen in ruminant animals...
- is related to the Latin pantex, meaning 'abdomen', cognate with English paunch. Open, quilted leather jackets and trousers were worn by Scythian hor****...
- (literally: Paunch Monday) in Lucerne, and the last day before Ash Wednesday on Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras), in Lucerne known as Güdisdienstag (literally: Paunch Tuesday)...
- telegraph.co.uk. Leonard, Tom (31 December 2002). "Rocky Gervais has a knockout paunch". Telegraph. Retrieved 25 October 2016. "Grant Bovey: 'Anthea Turner didn't...
- his statues. His portrait of Pellichus, a Corinthian general, "with fat paunch and bald head, wearing a cloak which leaves him half exposed, with some...
- modern German colloquial term "Wamme" from Old High German wamba for 'belly, paunch, lap'). The word woman can be used generally, to mean any female human,...
- is lustless, ****less, fireless, mute: The plant with plants his hungry paunch doth feede, Th' admired beast is sowen a slender seed. In his work Connubia...