puncher

[Eng. punch, v.; -er.] One who or that which punches or perforates; a punch. "He was a rival of the former, who used puncheons for his graving, which Johnson never did, calling Simon a puncher, not a graver." - Walpole: Anecdotes of Painting, ch. iii. 3296 punch-1-něl-lō, s . [A corrupt. of Ital. pulci nello, a character in Neapolitan comedy representing a foolish peasant who utters droll truths, dim in. from pulcino =a young chicken, a variant of pulcella (Fr pucelle )=a maiden, from Lat. pullus =the young of any animal; Ital. pulcinello , thus= (1) a little chicken, (2) a little boy, (3) a puppet. ( Skeat .)] A buffoon, a punch. [PUNCH (4), s.] tpunch-i-ne , s. [Eng. punchy; -ne .] The state or condition of being punchy; corpulence. "A short, stout man, inclining to punchine ." -Leigh Hunt: Autobiography , ch. iii. punch-ing, pr. par. or a. [PUNCH (1), υ.] punching-bear, s. A machine for making holes in sheet-metal.