punce

Definitions

To fight by kicking with clogs.

Northern-England, obsolete

Examples

“Cock-fighting and dog-fighting were often eclipsed by a fight⟳ between two men in the old Lancashire style, stripped to the skin with the exception of a pair of clogs, striking, wrestling, "puncing," now up, now down, for the fight⟳ was continued on the ground until the vanquished one cried off. Shins presented a sorry sight, gashed in all directions by the kicks from the clogs, and for weeks after had to be carefully washed and bandaged.”

“We refer⟳ in particular to that form⟳ of savagery known as the 'puncing match⟳', in which men of enormous strength and great agility were pitted together in cold blood, often for quite paltry stakes, to kick⟳ each other with iron-bound clogs until one or the other was either disabled or killed.”

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