punchbowln.
/ˈpʌn(t)ʃbəʊl/, U.S. /ˈpən(t)ʃˌboʊl/ 1. A large bowl in which punch is made and from which it is served.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bowl
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1675 H. Teonge Diary (1927) 42 We end the day and week with drinking to our wives in punch-bowls.
1681 R. Hassell Let. 11 Oct. in R. Law Eng. in W. Afr. (1997) I. 176 Plate 1 punch bole 1 silver tankard 1 ditto porringer.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 624 Subscriptions are making in the citty for a gold punch bowle of good value, to be presented to admirall Russell.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 40 A Valley, in form of something shap'd like a Punch-bole.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 35 Garrick sometimes used to take him [sc. Johnson] off, squeezing a lemon into a punch-bowl, with uncouth gesticulations, looking round the company, and calling out, ‘Who's for poonsh?’
1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. xi. 360 One greased pole to climb, two sheared pigs to catch, and a silver punch-bowl the prize.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. viii. 178 They..get what pleasure they can out of a punch-bowl.
1911 F. M. Farmer Catering for Special Occasions iii. 59 Strain into punch bowl over a large piece of ice.
1968 Canad. Antiques Collector Dec. 25/2 In the early 18th Century the wooden wassail bowl gave way to Punch Bowls made of pottery, porcelain, pewter and silver.
1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 9 Feb. b1/2 Honk if you know a boss who groped for his secretary over the punch bowl at the Christmas party.
2. † a. A kind of wide riverboat. Obsolete.
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1830 G. Colman Random Rec. I. 82 By letting out sailing-boats, wherries, punch-bowls, funnies and other aquatick vehicles.
1870 G. W. Dasent Ann. Eventful Life I. xii. 140 Then there was the water, and the funnies, cutters, wherries, punchbowls, and half~deckers that thronged the river daily.
b. A round deep hollow between hills or in a hillside; a depression in the landscape (either natural or man-made) shaped like a punchbowl. [Earlier in place names, especially in The Devil's Punch-Bowl , which occurs in several places (e.g. in Surrey, Somerset, and Northumberland in England, and in California and Nevada in the United States):Compare also quot. 1716 at sense 1.]
1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 323/2 On the west side of that mountain, is a large and deep hole, filled with water, which they call the Devil's punch-bowl.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland i. 298 The Devil's Punch-bowl..must be the crater of an exhausted volcano: there are many signs of them about Killarney.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 207 They walked upon the rim of the Devil's Punch Bowl.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > on or among hills
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1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah I. xii. 163 On all sides are rocks and mountains, rough and stony; so you find yourself in another of those punch-bowls which the Arabs seem to consider choice sites for settlements.
1902 Words of Eyewitness 251 On the high ridges..more Boers,..scanning the punchbowl below them with field-glasses.
2004 Grimsby Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 28 Feb. 2 The green itself is in a punchbowl and anything pitched over the approach bunker has a chance of running to the green.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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