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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Paunch \Paunch\, noun [OF. panch, pance, F. panse, L. pantex, panticis.]
1. (Anat.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See {Rumen}.
2. (Naut.) A paunch mat; -- called also {panch}.
3. The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
{Paunch mat} (Naut.), a thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Paunch \Paunch\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Paunched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Paunching}.]
1. To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. --Shak.
2. To stuff with food. [Obs.] --Udall.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
paunch
noun: a protruding abdomen [syn: {belly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "paunch": abdomen, abomasum, bay window, beerbelly, belly, bowel, breadbasket, corporation, craw, crop, diaphragm, disembowel, draw, embonpoint, first stomach, gizzard, gullet, gut, honeycomb stomach, kishkes, manyplies, maw, midriff, omasum, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence
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