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Paunched

Paunch \Paunch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paunched; p. pr. & vb. n. Paunching.]

  1. To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
    --Shak.

  2. To stuff with food. [Obs.]
    --Udall.

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paunched

vb. (en-past of: paunch)

Usage examples of "paunched".

He was six feet tall, portly, soft-looking, somewhat paunched, and had a prominent dewlap.

He was a youth of thirty-five, of medium height, black haired, ruddy faced, black moustached, paunched, and skinny legged.

Again she draws the sheet closer, modest and tranquil, while above her the gaunt, paunched, bald man stands with an expression on his face gentle, beaming, and triumphant.

Then he started work on the sow and paunched her, lugging out the hot bags of colored guts, pushing them into a pile on the rock while the others watched him.

Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it.

It was not the gate, however, that interested them, but its keeper, a monstrously paunched creature sitting on the floor beside a vast heap of potsherds, and whose only movement was a rubbing of what seemed to be his hands.