The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary

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battlement
stanchion
puncheon
garret
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puncheon

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1. A large cask of varying capacity, about 80 gallons; a.k.a. tierce, pon
2. a rough board with the flattened side used as flooring
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there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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