pungy

By midday the stables and stable-yards were filled; and the horses, fastened to the front-yard fence, formed a continuous line; while the creek about the grove was literally filled with small craft ranging from canoe to "pungy," and a steamboat had arrived from Norfolk with a great company and a band of music.

The end of an era, 1899

-- The pungy "Trifle" now stands in the name of Conrad

Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Henry Bascom Smith

The pungy "Trifle" (one of the captures) -- Colonel McPhail -- Major

Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Henry Bascom Smith

Contrariwise, pungy, batteau and scow are unheard of in England, and canoe is not long emerged from the estate of an Americanism.

Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921

The origin of cat-boat and pungy I have been unable to determine.

Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material Henry Louis 1921

Various nautical terms peculiar to America, or taken into English from American sources, came in during the eighteenth century, among them, schooner, cat-boat and pungy, not to recall batteau and canoe.

Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material Henry Louis 1921

I had scarce set out in a pungy from the dock, when I perceived

Richard Carvel — Volume 02 Winston Churchill 1909

The boatswain's pipe whistled, and the big ship was already sliding in the water as I leaped into my pungy, which Hugo was holding to the ladder.

Richard Carvel — Volume 02 Winston Churchill 1909

I had scarce set out in a pungy from the dock, when I perceived

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

The boatswain's pipe whistled, and the big ship was already sliding in the water as I leaped into my pungy, which Hugo was holding to the ladder.

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909