puncheon

A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.

A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.

he chose to regard [his father] with a lowering and suspicious mien, unless it were in the dead hours of the night, when he developed a morbid craving to be trotted back and forth and up and down the puncheon floor [...].

A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat (by either hewing or sawing).

A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used especially for flooring but also for log cabin walls, piers, or plank roads.

A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed with such timbers, made by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground.