verb. (old colloquial).—To eat.
1564. UDALL, The Apophthegmes of Erasmus, 382. Nowe ye see him ful PAUNCHED, as Lions are.
1612. The Passenger: Of Benvenuto, 139. A. If you did but see him after I haue once turned my back, how negligent he is in my profit, and in what sort he vseth to glut and PANCH himselfe, euery one that knowes him would auoid acquaintance with him.
TO JOIN PAUNCHES, verb. phr. (venery).—To copulate; TO JOIN GIBLETS (q.v.): see GREENS and RIDE.
1656. The Muses Recreation [HOTTEN], 48. My Father and Mother when first they JOIN’D PAUNCHES.
