Paunch

/pɔːnt͡ʃ/ · noun

Meaning

The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen..

Definitions by Sense

1. The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
2. The contents of this stomach in a slaughtered animal, viewed as food or a byproduct.
3. The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.
4. (nautical) A paunch mat.
5. The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
6. To remove the internal organs of a ruminant, prior to eating.

Example Sentences

See also: pooch

Since retiring from athletics, he has developed a paunch.

Haunch Paunch and Jowl—so that's the derisive picture the radicals had drawn of me. The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form. It had not yet reached the terrible proportions of obesity that years in a swivel chair on the judicial bench had later given me. But I suppose I was beginning to get fat.

“And another sort of weak, flailing blow to the paunch. Neither of these two are in any condition to be fighting.”

(Caliban) Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st brain him, Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife

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• paunches
• paunching
• paunched

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