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Puncheon

a liquid measure of capacity containing from 84 to 120 gallons. PUNCHINELLO. See PUNCH. writing or discourse; the act, art, or method of punctuating or pointing a PUNCTUATION, the act, art, or writing or discourse; method of dividing a discourse into sense; the act, art, or tences, clauses, etc., by means of points or stops. The first printed books had only arbitrary marks here and there, and or stops. The first printed books had tences, clauses, etc., by means of points it was not till the 16th century that an approach was made to the present sys- it was not till the 16th century that an tem by the Manutii of Venice.

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