Punt, a heavy, oblong, flat-bottomed boat, useful where stability and not speed is needed. Punts are much used for fishing and wild-fowling. Some are fitted for oars; but the more usual mode of propulsion is by poles operating on the bottom.
Punt
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 494
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