Pun

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To persuade or affect by a pun.

II. Pun ·vt To Pound.

III. Pun ·vi To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to Quibble.

IV. Pun ·noun A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.