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UK
/pˈʌntʃɐ/
]
NOUN
- a tool for making holes or indentations
- a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
- someone who delivers punches
How To Use puncher In A Sentence
- Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
- He was always what they call ‘a bleeder,’ a puncher who leads with his face and usually gets cut to ribbons by the time the first couple of rounds are over.
- On the other hand, a fighter who is not known as a knockout puncher can be very strong physically.
- Decades ago, as an undergrad project, I once fed a whole bunch of text from a couple of books into my program that ran a simple Markov model (I was a very fast keypuncher). The Volokh Conspiracy » “Google’s Computer Might Betters Translation Tool”
- Manny will come at him and Shane is a great counterpuncher with knockout power. Freddie Roach: 'Boxing gets in your blood and you just can't quit'
- Most often the cowpuncher's rifles were carried in the chuck wagon.
- The cowpuncher was a potential cattle-owner and good citizen, and if he went wild on occasion it was largely because he was so exuberantly young. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
- Arguello was usually a slow starter and Ismael was a very good counter puncher.
- Greenberg, rather than standing off trying to counter the counterpuncher, began to take some much-needed risks and take the fight to Kulikauskas.
- He was a vicious puncher with both hands. The Sun