punce

present singular third person punces · participle present puncing · participle past punced · past punced

1. Northern EnglandobsoleteLancashireTo fight by kicking with clogs.

   We refer in particular to that form of savagery known as the 'puncing match', in which men of enormous strength and great agility were pitted together in cold blood, often for quite paltry stakes, to kick each other with iron-bound clogs until one or the other was either disabled or killed.

   2008, John Hudson, Victorian & Edwardian Lancashire

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   Cock-fighting and dog-fighting were often eclipsed by a fight between two men in the old Lancashire style, stripped to the skin with the exception of a pair of clogs, striking, wrestling, "puncing," now up, now down, for the fight was continued on the ground until the vanquished one cried off. Shins presented a sorry sight, gashed in all directions by the kicks from the clogs, and for weeks after had to be carefully washed and bandaged.

   1891, Alfred Burton, Rush-bearing, page 160