puncheon

A cask; a liquid measure of from 72 to 120 gallons.

A perforating- or stamping-tool; a punch.

In carpentry: A short upright piece of timber in framing; a dwarf post, stud, or quarter.

A slab of split timber with the face smoothed with an adz or ax, sometimes used for flooring or bridge-boards in the absence of sawed boards.

One of the small quarters of a partition above the head of a door.