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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: short for earlier tow-pong, of Algonquian origin; akin to Micmac tobâgun drag made with skin Date: 1825 New England a sleigh with a box-shaped body

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pung Pung, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners. [U.S.] Sledges or pungs, coarsely framed of split saplings, and surmounted with a large crockery crate. -- Judd. They did not take out the pungs to-day. -- E. E. Hale.