Rotten wood; touchwood; spunk. A word in common use in New England, as well as in the other Northern States and Canada. Ash defines it "a kind of fungus, often used for tinder."--Pickering.
·noun A prostitute; a strumpet. II. Punk ·noun An artificial tinder. ·see <<Amadou>>, and <<Spunk>>...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A whore; also a soldier's trull. See trull. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The interior of an excrescence on the oak-tree; used as tinder, and better known as touch-wood. (See...
The Sailor's Word-Book