An extemporized one-horse sled or waggon. See 1851.

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1798.  

        In that fam’d town [Roxbury], which sends to Boston mart,
The gliding Tom Pung, and the rattling cart;
Which starves itself to wealthier palates please;
With early lamb, and earliest hotspur peas.
Royall Tyler, ‘Farmer’s Museum’ (N.E.D.).    

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1834.  A pung drove up to the toll-gate.—Robert C. Sands, ‘Writings,’ ii. 152 (N.Y.)

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1835.  When the snowy expanse of landscape shot past us like a dream, from the loaded sleigh, or the springing pung!—Knick. Mag., vi. 442 (Nov.). (Italics in the original.)

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1836.  There has been a flitter of snow this week [in Washington], and the pungs, the crates, the sleds, sledges, sleighs, and substitutes would much amuse you to look upon…. The driver of a pung had a negro boy by his side.—Boston Pearl, March 12.

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1840.  I drove on to Hartford, sitting on top of the mail-bags, which were piled in an uncovered pung.—Longfellow, ‘Life’ (1891), i. 358–9. (N.E.D.) (Italics in the original.)

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1850.  Pungs of butter, oats, mutton, defiled along.—S. Judd, ‘Richard Edney,’ p. 116.

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1850.  

        I’ve looked on frozen carcasses of babies
Piled up, like venison on a hunter’s pung.
The same, ‘Philo,’ p. 164.    

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1851.  These were sledges or pungs, coarsely framed of split saplings, and surmounted with a large crockery-crate.—The same, ‘Margaret,’ p. 174 (Bartlett).

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1857.  Broadway is full of sleighs, and ‘cutters,’ and ‘pungs,’ and all snow-vehicles, ‘of high and low degree.’—Knick. Mag., xlix. 103 (Jan.).

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1858.  Two young ‘Suckers’ came out of the inn, and jumped into a one-horse ‘pung’ wagon, thick with mud.—Id., lii. 539 (Nov.).

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1907.  (Maine). Also a “woods-pang.”—‘Dialect Notes,’ iii. 249.

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