punchbowl

plural punchbowls · alternative punch bowl

1. A large bowl used for making or serving punch (the beverage).

1. A locality in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
2. A valley in Belfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

   Synonyms: Punch Bowl, Punch Bowl Valley, Punchbowl Valley

3. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney.
4. A neighbourhood of Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
5. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Punchbowl Crater: a volcano in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.
6. A valley in Yanggu, Gangwon Province, South Korea.

   Last week, on the front north of the Punchbowl, a whole battalion of marines—nearly 1,000 men—was moved to a mountainous front-line sector by helicopter, in the largest operation of its kind to date.

   1951 October 22, “War in Asia”, in Time, volume LVIII, number 17, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27

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   Hill 930 here, about 100 miles northeast of Seoul, just above the village of Wontong, towers over a region still called the Punchbowl because that is what it looked like to G.I.'s during the Korean War.[…] "The Korean War is to all accounts and purposes ignored," said Rudy Basurto of Lompoc, Calif., who was a medic with the 45th Division 33 years ago in the Punchbowl.

   1985 October 27, Clyde H. Farnsworth, “KOREA WAR VETERANS RETURN FOR ANOTHER LOOK”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Section 1, page 16

   Naimo ran to their aid, exposing himself to withering enemy mortar, artillery and machine gun fire sweeping his company’s position: Hill 1052, near what would be called “The Punchbowl,” north of the 38th Parallel.

   2017 July 16, Lee Williams, “Korean War veteran’s Navy Cross is 66 years overdue”, in AP News, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2024

   Our drive north brings us to Haean-myeon valley, a highland basin in the far northeast of South Korea, and which was nicknamed “the punchbowl” by American-led United Nations forces during the Korean war. Jung, KFS biologist Bak Gippeum and I stroll through the 375-acre National DMZ Botanical Garden, which opened four years ago.

   2018 September 11, Johan Augustin, “North Korea’s ravaged forests and the South Koreans ready to replant them”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2018, Korean Peninsula

   Synonyms: Haean Basin