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  • noun Plural form of punnet.

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Examples

  • These are then put in 'punnets' by the greengrocers and retailed at a high price.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

  • - DO NOT try to compensate for the above by hiding rocks in the bottom of your punnets.

    Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009

  • Ballymaloe take a more seasonal approach to things by using redcurrant rather than lemon juice, made by simmering a couple of punnets of the astringent little fruits with water, and then pushing them through a sieve.

    How to make perfect strawberry jam 2011

  • Hart's holding company, Reynolds Group, is paying $33.25 a share for the US firm, which had sales of $3. 4bn last year and has a UK operation supplying products such as fruit punnets, egg boxes and zip-lock style seals.

    Pactiv takeover agreed by Graeme Hart's Reynolds Group 2010

  • Price is a perfectly sensible factor to consider when buying strawberry punnets at the supermarket.

    Rent a friend? What a wrong-headed notion 2010

  • I bought quick oats sachets, punnets of cherry tomatoes, bananas, small cans of baked beans etc and took them to work.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 2 Jun 2010

  • Then in the summers when she was at home during the week and C at school, she and I would go to the PYO and collect punnets and punnets of berries on my days off.

    Archive 2009-04-01 The List Writer 2009

  • Then in the summers when she was at home during the week and C at school, she and I would go to the PYO and collect punnets and punnets of berries on my days off.

    My strawberry girl The List Writer 2009

  • "Yes - by far the best" as she puts two punnets in her basket.

    OPEN THREAD.. 2009

  • As I rummaged between the okra and early new season broad beans, nestling next to the beans were a couple of punnets of pre shelled peas.

    At My Table 2008

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