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- noun Plural form of
pung .
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Examples
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This six points is given to a player who "pungs" to match this final pair when his final pair is his own wind and it is his own wind round.
Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling Lew Lysle Harr
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Ranged alongside the small building that served as the depot were several large sleighs, known in that country as "pungs," the bodies being filled with clean straw.
The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film Laura Lee Hope
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And when the horses were saddled, or were harnessed and hitched into the great box-sleighs or "pungs," and when the good Puritans were well wrapped up, the dying coals were raked out for safety and the noon-house was left as quiet and as cold as the deserted meeting-house until the following Sabbath or Lecture day.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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It was a day to seduce the old man into the sunshine in the stoop on the south side of the house, and to bring out the girls and young men, and swift trotting horses and pungs and jingling bells in gay confusion in the streets.
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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This four points is given when player pungs to match his final pair.
Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling Lew Lysle Harr
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For completing the hand with the fourth card of an exposed set of three of a kind -- for example, if a player has an exposed set of 3 of a kind and he draws or pungs the fourth tile, and if this very tile is the winning tile, he may double the total score once.
Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling Lew Lysle Harr
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Longfellow used it, and in 1857 a writer in the Knickerbocker Magazine reported that pungs filled Broadway, in New York, after a snow-storm.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material Henry Louis 1921
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In it, in bewildering confusion, were old sleighs, pungs, horse rakes, hogsheads, settees without backs, bedsteads without heads, in all stages of disability, and never the same on two consecutive days.
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Ike Jones was obliged to put extra pungs on to his stage line for the accommodation of visitors who included accountants, newspaper reporters, insurance men, and security representatives.
When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900
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It was elemental work -- filling a house with ice, three hundred-pound cakes of clean, clear ice, cut from the pond, skidded into the pungs, and hauled through the woods all white, and under a sky all gray, with softly-falling snow.
The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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