We had a room-it wasn't so much of a room as it was a sort of stationary vest-and we ate at those hunger cures where a girl punches out your bill on a little ticket and you don't dare eat up above the third figure from the bottom or you'll go broke on Friday.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
The fourth is, the rain-bucket, serving to shew the quantity of rain that falls; this hath two parts or punches; the first, to shew what part of the bucket is fill'd, when there falls not enough to make it empty itself; the second, to shew how many full buckets have been emptied.
"The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments"
Robert P. Multhauf
Some of these punches give one mark, every 100 revolutions of the vane-mill.
"The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments"
Robert P. Multhauf