punch a yet (punchiet)

[Hind. panchayat, contr. panchat, a court of arbitration consisting of five or more members, a council; cf. panch, a council of five, Bigamy is a Parsee abomination,.. and the unfortunate Jemshedjee was excommunicated by the honorable punch a yet. J. W. Palmer , The New and the Old, p. 274. punch-bowl (punch'bol), n. [= Sw.punschbal = Dan. punschebolle ; as punch5 + bowl .] A bowl in which the ingredients of punch are mixed, and from which it is served by means of a ladle. See cut under monteith . They hae gard [caused] fill up ae punch - bowl . Jock o' the Side (Child's Ballads, VI. 88). Take, for instance, the punch - bowl . It was a thing to be brought forth and filled with a fragrant mixture of punctation punch. Open-mouthed punching-bear, a punching bear which has in its side an opening or slot for the insertion of the margin of a metallic sheet or plate to be punched. See cut under bear2, 9. punching-machine (pun'ching-ma-shēn"), n. A power-punch for making rivet-holes in plates, tubes, and other work in wrought-iron. Such machines are operated by means of cams with steam or other power. They are often combined with shearing machines.