Definition of "paunch"

paunch

/pɔːnt͡ʃ/

noun
plural paunches
1. The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
2. The contents of this stomach in a slaughtered animal, viewed as food or a byproduct.
3. The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.
4. (nautical) A paunch mat.
5. The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
verb
third-person singular simple present paunches, present participle paunching, simple past and past participle paunched
1. To remove the internal organs of a ruminant, prior to eating.
  Quotations
  (Caliban)Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with himI' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st brain him,Having first seiz'd his books; or with a logBatter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,Or cut his wezand with thy knife
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]