A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground, also called duck boards, bog boards, or bog bridge.

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A short low bridge of similar construction. Also called puncheon bridge.

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A cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.

Once in the Grenada islands, when I and above eight others were pulling a large boat with two puncheons of water in it, a surf struck us, and drove the boat and all in it about half a stone's throw, among some trees, and above the high water mark.

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