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pung † [reduction of tom pung < towpung, ult. < Algonk. and related to toboggan, q.v.] Maritimes 
n. See 1896 quote.
- 1896 . . . they were getting snugly bundled into the warm, deep "pung," as the low box-sleigh with movable seats is called.
- 1946 Then the storm had become so bad that he could not drive the horse, and somewhere the animal had left the road. He had been upset from the pung and the horse had vanished.
- 1952 He remembered the time Chris had persuaded his mother to let him, David, go to the pung races on the lake. . . .
- 1965 Fathers, like most businessmen, preferred the buggy, or the pung in winter.
- 1896 . . . they were getting snugly bundled into the warm, deep "pung," as the low box-sleigh with movable seats is called.