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▪ I. † punnet1 Obs. rare.
[app. a dim. of pun n.1]
? A little pun.
1676–1820 [see pundigrion].
▪ II. punnet2|ˈpʌnɪt|
Also punnit.
[Of obscure origin: perh. f. pun, dial. for pound n.1 + et.]
a. A small round shallow chip basket, used chiefly for fruit or vegetables. Less correctly = pottle1 2. Now also a container of other materials and shapes.
1822Loudon Encycl. Gard. Index, Punnet, a small flat basket from four to twelve inches in diameter, and one to two inches deep, formed of split wood or shavings of timber. 1849Alb. Smith Pottleton Leg. xxxix, Baskets of flowers—being punnets borrowed from the market-garden. 1884West. Daily Press 29 May 3/7 The high and conical [bonnets]..suggest strawberry punnets turned upside down upon the head. 1906Spectator 29 Sept. 437/1 Thin paper lining a frail punnet where Lay filberts woodland-brown. 1922Joyce Ulysses 289 Punnets of mushrooms. 1943H. J. Massingham Men of Earth ii. 16 Some gave a pound for a punnet of strawberries, others a pound for a punnet of tomatoes. 1955[see chip n.1 4 b]. 1971Morning Star 13 July 2 Whole families prepared to descend on the regimented lines of strawberries and fill thousands of punnets. 1975Times 27 Nov. 13/7 A marvellous new filler..(8op a punnet), which claims to fill everything from plaster to concrete.
b. Comb., as punnet-crowned, punnet-shaped adjs.
1892Daily News 29 Mar. 2/4 Some of the new hats have high, punnet-shaped crowns. Ibid. 4 July 9/2 Punnet-crowned bonnets were the principal wear.
Hence ˈpunneted ppl. a., packed in punnets.
1907Westm. Gaz. 27 June 12/1 The Perth strawberry crops are heavy, and for the first time large quantities of punneted berries are to be sent down South. |