ice punt

noun, a boat with runners used to travel over ice, or to navigate ice-filled waters; a general term that encompasses iceboats

“We had an old ice punt, you know, the one with the handles on the front and back.”

“She said they went over in an ice punt with men pushing the ice punt, and two or three of them fell in while they were going.”

“What year was it that he went through the ice? They all went through in the ice punt.”

“You don’t remember the ice punts? They just looked like a box. They were likely roughly, I’m saying, 20 feet, up to 25 feet.”

“We’d watch Tom and Sarah in their late seventies come across the ice here with a ice punt.”

“He met them in town with an ice punt and brought them home, and anyways they got wet going across. And he said their music got wet and what have you.”

“They brought the ice punt. They’d park it down by the dock here, and we’d give them a ride to the Village or a ride to the ferry or whatever.”

“I remember they come in with the punt, and them old ice punts were about sixteen, eighteen feet long, miserable things to row.”

“Some of those ice punts, they had handles on the side that you could push them, eh.”

“Len met them in town with an ice punt, and brought them home, and anyways they got wet going across.”

“One man in front and one man in the back, yeah. One pulling the other pushing and whatever was in the boat. I remember one of the kids telling about one time they were going across with the ice punts, and they were pushing and pulling and one guy jumped in and put his foot right in a basket of eggs.”

“I forget who rowed the ice punt over. I can’t remember.”