(1) Belcher Brothers & Co. names its 84 gallon line a ‘ puncheon ’ and there is a line for a 120 gallon ‘pipe’ as well as a 120 gallon ‘hogshead.’(2) They married in 1787, but to add to his woes, before this happy event, it was thought Nelson had tuberculosis, which, together with the depression, led his crew to prepare a puncheon of rum to receive his body.(3) The rum trade has been analyzed for what it can say about currency equivalencies and the volume of puncheons , but not for people's actually drinking it.(4) Farmers used any wooden casks they could get hold of, though West Indian puncheons that had previously held rum were especially prized because of the flavour they gave the cider.(5) We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs.
