punk

The interior of an excrescence on the oak-tree; used as tinder, and better known as touch-wood. (See spunk.)

Punk
·noun A prostitute; a strumpet. II. Punk ·noun An artificial tinder. ·see <<Amadou>>, and <<Spunk>>...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
punk
A whore; also a soldier's trull. See trull. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
punk
Rotten wood; touchwood; spunk. A word in common use in New England, as well as in the other Northern...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.