Pung

The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries. ❋ Anna Chapin Ray (1905)

Note 61: CS 1601; Proto-Mashariki * - pung - "to winnow, to fan"; PNECB * - pung "to winnow, to fan, to exorcise"; e.g., ❋ Unknown (2008)

I am honored to be the sole chosen 373rd-generation lineage holder of Peng Zu pronounced pung zoo, the teacher of Lao Zi. ❋ Dr. (2010)

Yatima a piercing whistle of pure joie de vivre pung, kong, chow ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yatima » Blog Archive » pung, kong, chow ❋ Unknown (2009)

She put a finger to a line and said in a voice that picked up speed without taking breath, Ong aung mung ring pang pung mang ang hauh! ❋ Richard Lewis (2008)

Mr. SCOFIELD: You know, as reverse to pung-pung-kark (ph), pung-pung-pung-pung-kark (ph) which is the music of our time. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He was pung away, retreating into that dark world where only he could go. ❋ Carroll, Marisa (1999)

But he pulled out a watermelon and put it on the table with a loud pung. ❋ Tan, Amy (1989)

For example: A player having a pair or three fives of the character suit, may _pung_ when another player discards a five character, expose his set and discard, the play going on in the regular direction from him. ❋ Lew Lysle Harr (N/A)

If a player can pung a discard which will complete his _hand_ and another player can pung the same discard to complete a _set_, the former has the right to take the discard. ❋ Lew Lysle Harr (N/A)

As has been mentioned before when a player has matched his hand into four (4) sets and by a draw or a pung has mated the final pair he wins and announces "_Mah-Jongg_" or "_Mah-Diao_" (Dee-O), either being correct and in common usage, the latter being the most logical because of its English translation "mating the pair." ❋ Lew Lysle Harr (N/A)

As will be seen by the score card, concealed sets having been made up by the player without the assistance of a pung or chow score twice as much as the same set would if it were on the table. ❋ Lew Lysle Harr (N/A)

If his hand has not improved at all or very little since the beginning of the game and he has small chance of completing his hand in any way before some other player does, his only plan is to hold the tiles which he thinks would help the other players and discard only those which he is sure they will not pung. ❋ Lew Lysle Harr (N/A)

The lady tried to help me, and, after a desperate effort, the heavy pung was dragged from the water upon the frozen surface. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

An hour later, a pung or box-sleigh drew up at the poor-house door, from which was lifted a long, gaunt figure, carefully enveloped in blankets and cloaks. ❋ Various (N/A)

A player having three of a kind in his hand may _pung_ the fourth when it is discarded or having three of a kind on the table and drawing the fourth may add it to his 3 exposed tiles. ❋ Lew Lysle Harr (N/A)