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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A low box-like sleigh designed to be pulled by one horse. Canada, US

   "[…] they all crowded into the big pung sleigh, among straw and furry robes."

2. 2
   A set of three identical tiles.
3. 3
   a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners wordnet
4. 4
   A call for forming such a set using a discarded tile.

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of ping Internet, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms

ponsledthree-of-a-kindtriplet

Example

More examples

"Kang Pung's servant hired the twelve zodiac animals to kill Kang Pung. They ambushed Kang Pung and his wife, Wolnu."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Shortened form of tom-pung, from the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Cantonese 碰 (pung³).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.