He would not undertake to dance, for he readily perceived that the gyrations in the ball-room were utterly dissimilar to the clumsy capering to which he had been accustomed on the puncheon floor of a mountain cabin.
The puncheon floor was grimy--the feet that curiosity had led hither brought much red clay mire upon them.
The heavy puncheon door was closed, and locked with a ponderous padlock that had been carried into the wilderness when they emigrated from their former Virginia home.
Make the puncheon table of a flat, narrow piece of wood.
A long puncheon was placed at the proper angle just underneath the opening which served as a window, and this constituted our writing desk.
I felt more secure when I lay down to sleep with those dogs by my door than if I had had a puncheon door, barred and locked.
One not the least curious, is the luxurious mode of life, which the puncheon of wine supposes among stonemasons at such a remote period of Quebec history as 1646.
This trigger was a part of the prop under the puncheon and gave way at the slightest jar.
Chief of their traps was the dead-fall, made by propping up one end of a short piece of puncheon or hewed plank, in such a way that it would fall upon the animal which attempted to secure the bait placed on a trigger beneath it.
I had a big puncheon of rainwater by the spout which I was reserving for making soap.
Walter was at one side of the puncheon standing on a chair, holding the kitten, and you were standing on a chair at the other side.
You leaned across that puncheon and grabbed the kitten and pulled.
I love to think of that old log house with its hewed puncheon floors and thick oaken doors, where my youth was spent.
Now I thought I could detect a soft and very faint noise as of some large body creeping over the puncheon steps.
I heard again the thud of Balty's body on the puncheon floor, when Luysnes cut him down from the rafters of Howell's house.
I considered them as I lay abed, watching the moonlight crawl across the puncheon floor.
This projected about a foot, and a puncheon roof was put over that.
I think the men slept upstairs, for when the walls were up seven feet they laid a puncheon floor, covered with grass and clay, which Gass says made 'a warm loft.
Some of the cabins had puncheon floors while others had only the bare earth.
This was called rolling-up a house, and the house was called a puncheon and bark house.
The ground floors were occasionally of earth, but puncheon floors were common in the better houses.
A roughpuncheon floor, hewed flat with an axe or adze, was truly a luxury.
Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse at the latter end of it?
Some had a rough puncheonfloor and others a dirt floor.
The early meeting-house of the Puritans in New England were of a very simple interior with raftered walls and sanded puncheon floors or earthen floors.
Copeland pursued his education in the district schools and began his studies in one of the old-time log schoolhouses with a puncheon floor, slab benches and sod roof.
Upon his land he built a log cabin with puncheon floor and door.
Mr. Ford built a log cabin with puncheon floor and doors and stick chimney and in true pioneer style began his life in Oregon territory.
There he built a typical log cabin with puncheonfloor and door, through which a string was inserted that was fastened to the latch in order that the traveler might pull the string and open the door.
He took up a homestead three miles southwest of the present city of Dayton and built a log cabin with puncheon floors, which remained the family home for a number of years.
Where the babe crept on the puncheon floor, tree-sprouts, with thorns and thistles, are entangled.
One of our party pushed thepuncheon door, which easily swung open with a creak of wooden hinges.
On the scoured puncheon floor furtherest from the chimney, were three rough bed-steads, high with feather ticks and torn blankets.
She stood upon the rude puncheon floor on one foot scarcely able yet to bear even the lightest pressure upon the other.
On the puncheon floor wolf and bear skins were spread.
Another form of sawbuck may be made of a puncheon stool (Fig.
A HOE CAKE May be cooked in the same manner that one planks a shad: that is, by plastering it on the flat face of a puncheon or board, split from the trunk of a tree (Fig.
A puncheon is a log flattened on one or both sides.
This you do by hewing and scoring; that is, by cutting a series of notches all of the same depth, and then splitting off the wood between the notches, as one would in making a puncheon (Fig.
Heat the plank in front of the fire and then spread your fish out flat on the hot puncheon or plank, and with your hunting knife press upon it, make slit holes through the fish (Fig.
Prop the puncheon up in front of a fire which has a good back-log and plenty of hot coals to send out heat (Fig.
The puncheon flooring was planed into delightful smoothness, and the mantels were of beautifully grained walnut, prepared by Abner during winter evenings.
Its log walls have been weather-boarded, its clapboard roof replaced by one of shingles, and its rough-hewn puncheon benches have given way to more comfortable seats.
The floors were puncheon flat slabs split from whole tree trunks and the doors and windows were made of oak and were swung on great wooden hinges.
