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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Punȝe, v.2 (? Shortened f. e.m.E. pinion v. (1558), to cut off the pinion of one of the wings of a bird to prevent it from flying. Variously const.) —16.. Monipennie Chron. in Misc. Scot. I 198.
[The erne] the people are very curious to catch him, and punȝe his wings that hee fly not 1639 Sc. Ant. III 132.
Ther is great repairing of a fowle, called the erne, and the people … solicit to catch him whome thereafter they punȝe of his wings
