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paunsway

paunsway is the alternative form of panchway.

Meaning of panchway

Noun

panchway (plural panchways)

  1. (India, historical) A Bengalese four-oared passenger boat.
    • [A] Bengal boat called a paunceway came alongside, which Colonel Watson engaged to convey him to Calcutta.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 205

Forms of paunsway

pluralpaunsways

Questions about paunsway

What is paunsway the alternative form of?
Paunsway is the alternative form of panchway.

Words near paunsway in the dictionary

  1. paunchy
  2. paune
  3. Paunee
  4. Paunees
  5. Pauni
  6. paunsway
  7. paunsways
  8. pauper
  9. pauper's field
  10. pauper's funeral
  11. pauper's grave

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paunsway (page history and authors); panchway (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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