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Definition of Punners
1. punner [n] - See also: punner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punners
Literary usage of Punners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1907)
"The powder is then rammed with iron disc-shaped punners, weighing about 10
Ibs., heated to prevent the adhesion of the powder. The punning or tamping should ..."
2. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1877)
"The whole is then filled in and carefully rammed with wooden punners. Some three
years ago I laid down a short length of such a line, and before breaking it ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1780)
"... Total charges of the artillery for one year — — 1547 9 2 Bat in the 109 punners
above mentioned, there are included lees tj che fallowing perfins, viz. ..."
4. Aspects of Child Life and Education by Granville Stanley Hall (1921)
"They hear fancied words in noises and sounds of nature and animals, and are
persistent punners. As butterflies make butter or eat it or give it by squeezing ..."
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