In a message dated 11/11/1999 9:53:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> The carpenter makes puncheons by riving boards about two inches
> thick and six to ten inches wide from a log, using a froe and a mallet.
> Smoothing is done with a foot adze, working cross-grain after the floor is
> installed. A cruder type of puncheon is made by splitting sapling logs in
> half,
> leaving the bark intact.
Is this the "punching" that relates to "puncheon"? Is the splitting (don't
know what a "froe" is....) the act that relates it to the other root words?
-- Needs to watch traditional woodcraft in action